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02313aam a22002775a 4500 001 572A305CD89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210629010024 008 210326s2021 |||| ||| |||||||||||| 020 $a 1101966629 020 $a 9781101966624 040 $d SILO 082 00 $a FIC 100 1 $a Weir, Alison 245 10 $a Katheryn Howard : $b The Scandalous Queen $c by Alison Weir. 260 $a USA $b Ballantine Books $c 2021 300 $a 496 p. 490 $a Six Tudor Queens ; $v Book 5 520 $a In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England's premier Catholic peer, who is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A fun-loving, eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs to the king's attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family. 520 $a Henry quickly becomes besotted and is soon laying siege to Katheryn's virtue. But as instructed by her relations, she holds out for marriage and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the king's union to Anna is annulled. Henry tells the world his new bride is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue, while Katheryn delights in the pleasures of being queen and the rich gifts her adoring husband showers upon her: the gorgeous gowns, the exquisite jewels, and the darling lap-dogs. She comes to love the ailing, obese king, enduring his nightly embraces with fortitude and kindness. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her --even as she courts danger yet again. What happens next to this naiÌve and much-wronged girl is one of the saddest chapters in English history. 600 $a Tudors, 1485-1603. 655 $a Romance. 655 $a Historical romance. 941 $a 1 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119015756.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=572A305CD89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search