Weir, Alison Katheryn Howard 9781101966624

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Автор: Weir, Alison
Название: Katheryn Howard
ISBN: 9781101966624
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1101966629
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 496
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 18.05.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 208 x 137 x 31
Основная тема: Fiction - General
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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.

A vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy.--Kirkus Reviews

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, Englands 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 kings attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family.

Henry quickly becomes besotted and is soon laying siege to Katheryns virtue. But as instructed by her relations, she holds out for marriage and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the kings 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 na ve and much-wronged girl is one of the saddest chapters in English history.

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