The Last Wife of Henry VIII - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Wife of Henry VIII write by Carolly Erickson. This book was released on 2006-10-03. The Last Wife of Henry VIII available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette Courageous, attractive, romantic, intelligent, Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII. Her story, as Carolly Erickson re-creates it, is page-turning drama: from the splendors of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to the gory last years of the outsize King Henry, when heads rolled and England trembled, Catherine bestrode her destiny and survived to marry her true love. Catherine Parr attracted the king's lust and, though much in love with the handsome Thomas Seymour, was thrown into the intrigue-filled snake pit of the royal court. While victims of the king's wrath suffered torture and execution, Catherine persevered—until, at last, she came within the orbit of the royal fury. King Henry toyed with her, first ordering her arrested, then granting her clemency. She managed to evade execution, but she knew that the king had his wandering eye fixed on wife number seven. She was spared by his death and married the attractive but dangerously unbalanced Seymour. Her triumph was shadowed by rivalry with the young Princess Elizabeth, whose lands and influence the lecherous Seymour coveted. Catherine won the contest, but at great cost. In The Last Wife of Henry VIII, critically acclaimed author Carolly Erickson brings this dramatic story of survival and redemption to life.
Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catherine Parr write by Susan James. This book was released on 2010-12-26. Catherine Parr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title presents the turbulent life and loves of Henry VIII's sixth wife. Romantic, chaotic, and terrifying, Catherine Parr's life unfolded like a romance novel. Wed at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic then widowed at 20, Catherine chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up in the turbulent terrors of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, she was captured by northern rebels, held hostage, and suffered violence at their hands. Fleeing to the south shortly afterward, Catherine took refuge in the household of the Princess Mary and in the arms of the king's brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Seymour. Her employment in Mary's household brought her to the attention of Mary's father, the unpredictable Henry VIII. Desperately in love with Seymour, Catherine was forced into marriage with a king whose passion for her could not be hidden and who was determined to make her his queen.
Katherine the Queen
Katherine the Queen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Katherine the Queen write by Linda Porter. This book was released on 2010-11-23. Katherine the Queen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536-37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Her life had been dramatic even before she became queen and it would remain so after Henry's death. She hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, and died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548. Her brief happiness was undermined by the very public flirtation of her husband and step-daughter, Princess Elizabeth. She was one of the most influential and active queen consorts in English history, and this is her story.
The Last Wife of Henry VIII
The Last Wife of Henry VIII - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Wife of Henry VIII write by Carolly Erickson. This book was released on 2007-04-17. The Last Wife of Henry VIII available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Courageous, romantic, intelligent: Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII and her story, as Carolly Erickson recreates it, is riveting drama
Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catherine Parr write by Elizabeth Norton. This book was released on 2010-01-15. Catherine Parr available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII.
