Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII Thomas Talbot With the grip of a

With the grip of a thriller and the emotional force of a sonnet

who have grown like weeds into women unwilling to be restrained by the strictures governing nineteenth-century society

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Published: 12/14/2018

Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII Thomas Talbot With the grip of aThe 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