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Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII´s Fifth Queen
Josephine Wilkinson
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Description for Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII´s Fifth Queen
Paperback. An in-depth biography of Henry VIII's fifth queen, whose beheading was one of the greatest scandals of the Tudor age. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444796292
SKU
V9781444796292
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Ref
99-1
About Josephine Wilkinson
Josephine Wilkinson has a BA, MPhil and PhD from the University of Newcastle. She has published four books including Mary Boleyn, the first published biography of Mary, Anne Boleyn, a book about Richard III and a collection of essays and papers on the princes in the tower. Find out more about Jo at www.josepha-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.co.uk
Reviews for Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII´s Fifth Queen
[Josephine Wilkinson] makes extensive use of primary sources such as states papers, and fascinating research about sexuality and gender-appropriate behaviour in Tudor times, to give us a moving portrait of a tragic victim of unscrupulous men in positions of authority over her
Mslexia
Never before have I come across such an eye-opening book on her life . . ... Read more
Mslexia
Never before have I come across such an eye-opening book on her life . . ... Read more