Based on his research into Catherine’s household, Gareth Russell’s history unfurls as if in real time to explain how the queen’s career ended with one of the great scandals of Henry VIII’s reign.
The King’s marriage to Anne of Cleves has failed, his closest adviser Thomas Cromwell is to be executed for treason and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly irascible, unpredictable monarch.īorn into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine was attended every waking hour by servants and companions.
Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2017ĭuring one of the hottest summers on record the court of Henry VIII is embroiled, once again, in political scandal.
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