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. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. She comes to love the ailing, obese king and tolerate his nightly attentions. Katherine delights in the pleasures of being queen and the power she has to do good to others. Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife is Alison Weirs eleventh published novel and the final book in the Six Tudor Queens series about the wives of Henry VIII, which. He tells the world she is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue. 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. Seated near him intentionally by her ambitious Catholic family, Katheryn readily succumbs to the courtship. Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIIIs fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. 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. 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.
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