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Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen : a novel / Alison Weir.
Van Pelt Library PR6123.E36 K39 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weir, Alison, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Weir, Alison, 1951- Six Tudor queens ; 5.
- Six Tudor queens ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Courts and courtiers.
- History.
- England--Court and courtiers--History--16th century--Fiction.
- Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542.
- Queens--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Queens.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 480 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII, desperate to be rid of his queen, Anna of Kleve, first sets eyes on the enchanting Katheryn Howard. Although the king is now an ailing forty-nine-year-old measuring fifty-four inches around his waist, his amorous gaze lights upon the pretty teenager. Seated near him intentionally by her ambitious Catholic family, Katheryn readily succumbs to the courtship. Henry is besotted with his bride. He tells the world she is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue. Katherine delights in the pleasures of being queen and the power she has to do good to others. She comes to love the ailing, obese king and tolerate his nightly attentions. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her--even as she courts danger yet again"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Weir, Alison, 1951- Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen
- ISBN:
- 9781101966600
- 1101966602
- OCLC:
- 1112872167
- Publisher Number:
- 99984480430
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