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The Rise and Fall of Queen Katharine Howard

2022-11-13 Fiction
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Release : 2022-11-13
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Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Queen Katharine Howard by : Ford Madox Ford

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Queen Katharine Howard written by Ford Madox Ford. This book was released on 2022-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Queen trilogy consists of three historical novels, The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal and The Fifth Queen Crowned. The trilogy presents a fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death. Katharine Howard is introduced as a devout Roman Catholic, impoverished, young noblewoman escorted by her fiery cousin Thomas Culpeper. By accident, she comes to the attention of the king, in a minor way at first, is helped to a position as a lady in waiting for the then bastard Lady Mary, Henry's eldest daughter, by her old Latin tutor Nicholas Udal. Udal is a spy for Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal. As Katharine becomes involved with the many calculating, competing, and spying members of Henry VIII's Court, she gradually rises, almost against her will, in Court. She is brought more to the attention of the King, becomes involved with him, gets used by Cromwell, Bishop Gardiner and Thomas Cranmer as well as the less powerful though more personally attached Nicholas Throckmorton. Her connection to the latter puts her in some peril, as in January 1554 he is suspected of complicity in Wyatt's Rebellion and arrested, during which time Katherine is also briefly implicated. Katharine's forthrightness, devotion to the Old Faith and learning are what make her attractive to the King, along with her youth and physical beauty.

Catherine Howard

2009-01-15 History
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Release : 2009-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Catherine Howard by : Lacey Baldwin-Smith

Download or read book Catherine Howard written by Lacey Baldwin-Smith. This book was released on 2009-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, beheaded for playing Henry at his own game - adultery.

The King's Rose

2009 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2009
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis The King's Rose by : Alisa M. Libby

Download or read book The King's Rose written by Alisa M. Libby. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catharine Howard recounts the events in her life that led to her being groomed for marriage at the age of fifteen to King Henry VIII, her failure to produce an heir to the throne, and her quick execution.

Katherine Howard

2016-04-07 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-04-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Katherine Howard by : Josephine Wilkinson

Download or read book Katherine Howard written by Josephine Wilkinson. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen. Katherine now reached the Tower of London, her final destination. Katherine Howard was the fifth wife of Henry VIII and cousin to the executed Anne Boleyn. She first came to court as a young girl of fourteen, but even prior to that her fate had been sealed and she was doomed to die. She was beheaded in 1542 for crimes of adultery and treason, in one of the most sensational scandals of the Tudor age. The traditional story of Henry VIII's fifth queen dwells on her sexual exploits before she married the king, and her execution is seen as her just dessert for having led an abominable life. However, the true story of Katherine Howard could not be more different. Far from being a dark tale of court factionalism and conspiracy, Katherine's story is one of child abuse, family ambition, religious conflict and political and sexual intrigue. It is also a tragic love story. A bright, kind and intelligent young woman, Katherine was fond of clothes and dancing, yet she also had a strong sense of duty and tried to be a good wife to Henry. She handled herself with grace and queenly dignity to the end, even as the barge carrying her on her final journey drew up at the Tower of London, where she was to be executed for high treason. Little more than a child in a man's world, she was the tragic victim of those who held positions of authority over her, and from whose influence she was never able to escape.

Young and Damned and Fair

2017-04-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2017-04-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Young and Damned and Fair by : Gareth Russell

Download or read book Young and Damned and Fair written by Gareth Russell. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England July 1540: it is one of the hottest summers on record and the court of Henry VIII is embroiled, once again, in political scandal. Anne Cleves is out. Thomas Cromwell is to be executed and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly unpredictable monarch... In the five centuries since her death, Catherine Howard has been dismissed as 'a wanton', 'inconsequential' or a naive victim of her ambitious family, but the story of her rise and fall offers not only a terrifying and compelling story of an attractive, vivacious young woman thrown onto the shores of history thanks to a king's infatuation, but an intense portrait of Tudor monarchy in microcosm: how royal favour was won, granted, exercised, displayed, celebrated and, at last, betrayed and lost. The story of Catherine Howard is both a very dark fairy tale and a gripping political scandal.

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