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Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr

by Linda Porter
$15.90
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr

Katherine Parr: A queen's untold complexities.

If you're enamored with the Tudor period, or if strong, influential women in history pique your interest, Linda Porter's "Katherine the Queen" will be a fascinating read. It strips away the layers of historical simplification to reveal a nuanced portrait of Katherine Parr, a woman far ahead of her time thrust into a royal spotlight. You'll delve into the life of a queen who navigated politics, religion, and personal ambition in a way that resonates with modern sensibilities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr

by Linda Porter
$15.90
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ISBN: 9780230749559
Authors: Linda Porter
Publisher: Macmillan
Date of Publication: 2010-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Related Topics: Biography, Biography Memoir, European History, Historical
Goodreads rating: 4.03
(rated by 1607 readers)

Description

Acclaimed historical biographer Linda Porter provides a vivid life of Katherine Parr revealing Henry VIII's last queen to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto been realized. The general perception of Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a matronly consort to nurse him as his health declined. In the various studies of the six wives of Henry VIII she receives much less attention than Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn. Her main achievement, in the famous rhyme about Henry's six wives, is that she 'survived'. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate (she had a mighty temper when aroused), ambitious and highly intelligent. She was thirty years old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king. Twice widowed, 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. It would remain so after Henry's death, when she hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour. Katherine died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548, her brief happiness undermined by the very public flirtation of her husband and step-d
 

Katherine Parr: A queen's untold complexities.

If you're enamored with the Tudor period, or if strong, influential women in history pique your interest, Linda Porter's "Katherine the Queen" will be a fascinating read. It strips away the layers of historical simplification to reveal a nuanced portrait of Katherine Parr, a woman far ahead of her time thrust into a royal spotlight. You'll delve into the life of a queen who navigated politics, religion, and personal ambition in a way that resonates with modern sensibilities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.