Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen..., Alison Weir
Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen..., Alison Weir
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Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen

Author: Alison Weir

Narrator: Rosalyn Landor

Unabridged: 16 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/29/2020


Synopsis

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 is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England’s premier Catholic peer, who is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A fun-loving, eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs to the king’s attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family.

Henry quickly becomes besotted and is soon laying siege to Katheryn’s virtue. But as instructed by her relations, she holds out for marriage and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the king’s union to Anna is annulled. Henry tells the world his new bride is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue, while Katheryn delights in the pleasures of being queen and the rich gifts her adoring husband showers upon her: the gorgeous gowns, the exquisite jewels, and the darling lap-dogs. She comes to love the ailing, obese king, enduring his nightly embraces with fortitude and kindness. 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. What happens next to this naïve and much-wronged girl is one of the saddest chapters in English history.

About Alison Weir

Alison Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Innocent Traitor and The Lady Elizabeth and several historical biographies, including Mistress of the Monarchy and The Six Wives of Henry VIII.


Reviews

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on April 14, 2020

Heaven knows I've devoured scores of books and documentaries about The Tudors, since they are a lifelong passion of mine. Even so, this historical fiction offering gave me a whole new perspective on the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. Whereas before I looked upon this wife as an unintelligent, wanton......more

Goodreads review by Whispering on December 15, 2020

Book Reviewed on www.whisperingstories.com ‘Katheryn Howard – The Tainted Queen’ is the latest book by best-selling author, Alison Weir. This tale is told through the eyes of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, in the third person and the past tense. Daughter of the hapless Sir Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpepper,......more

Goodreads review by Sue on May 27, 2020

Katheryn Howard the Scandalous Queen, a novel of the fifth wife of Henry VIII, is told in the voice of the young woman, beginning at the death of her mother in childbirth when Katheryn was seven. (Her precise date of birth is debated according to Weir, which might well impact her behavior in her sho......more

Goodreads review by Tracey Allen on December 28, 2020

Katheryn Howard - The Tainted Queen is the fifth novel in the Six Tudor Queens series by British historian Alison Weir. I've been following the series for years now and each book can be read and enjoyed as a stand alone. We join Katheryn Howard at age seven in 1528 and follow her short life in a firs......more

Goodreads review by Giorgia on May 02, 2022

Ammetto l'ignoranza e vi dico che ho sempre saputo che Enrico VIII aveva avuto sei mogli, ma mica le conoscevo tutte! E voi le conoscete ognuna a menadito? Qui incontriamo Caterina ancora bambina che, dopo la morte della madre, a causa dei debiti contratti dal padre, vive in povertà nonostante il suo......more