Love, she doesn’t realize that Sir Thomas now sees her as a mere stepping stone to power and riches, his eye actually set on bedding and wedding fourteen-year-old Elizabeth. Thrilled at this renewed opportunity to wed her first Fearing that she is unlikely to bear the King a child, Katharine gladly mothers his three children, Mary, Elizabeth, and the longed-for male heir, Edward.įour years into the marriage, Henry dies, leaving England’s throne to nine-year-old Edward-a puppet in the hands of ruthlessly ambitious royal councilors-and Katharine’s life takes a more complicated turn. Aware of his rival, Henry sends him abroad, leaving Katharine no choice but to become his sixth Queen in 1543. She, however, is in love with Sir Thomas Seymour, brother Having sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixes his lonely eyes on a more mature woman, thirty-year-old, twice-widowed Katharine Parr. Log in Create account × Summaryīestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
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