Stubborn (Catherine), Arrogant (Anne), Jane (Boring then died), Anne (best one took the divorce and ran) and now Katheryn. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Yes, I’ve always had the most sympathy for Catherine Howard too. I still need to read the one she wrote about Jane Seymour!

The man she really loves, however, is Thomas Culpeper, one of the King’s courtiers, whom she continues to meet in secret even knowing that if they are discovered both of their lives could be in danger.

I see you’re reading The Mirror and the Light! Her death seems particularly tragic because she was so young and full of life and didn’t seem to realise the trouble she was getting herself into! All four books in the series are Sunday Times bestsellers.

She’s attractive, fun-loving, immature, irresponsible, flighty, and passionate.
She lives superficially, caring primarily about her own pleasure and comfort, repeatedly succumbing to male attention — even when the man’s reputation is known to be questionable. Alison has also published several historical novels, including Innocent Traitor and The Lady Elizabeth.



It comes back increasingly to haunt her. ISBN: 9781472227782 Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard, the Tainted Queen by Alison Weir, Pre-Conquest England and House of Normandy, James I/VI, Charles I and the English Civil War, Six Degrees of Separation: From The Turn of the Screw to The Turn of the Key, The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home, Mockingbirds, Looking Glasses and Prejudices. She sings, she dances. The Anna of Kleve book was still interesting – I just felt that too much of the story had been made up rather than based on fact. General Acclaimed, bestselling historian Alison Weir draws on extensive research to recount one of the most tragic tales in English history - that of a lively, sweet but neglected girl, used by powerful men for their own gain.

Glad to hear this one was a return to form for Weir and this series – I am really looking forward to reading it, after I have tackled Anna of Kleve! The details and instability of her early home life (including the absence of her father) helps make Katheryn a sympathetic figure and, to my mind, provides a reason for her becoming so susceptible to the attentions of older men.

Great review . I intend to get to them some day. So I’m still not quite sure about this author. Publisher: Headline ( Log Out /  Poor dimwitted but pretty Katheryn falls in and out …

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And finally, the author also does a skillful job of describing — quite convincingly — what was likely going through Katheryn’s mind as her downfall began. For those who share her secrets are waiting in the shadows, whispering words of love... and blackmail. I didn’t get very far with her first book about Elizabeth or the one on Eleanor of Aquitaine, but I loved Innocent Traitor.

The fifth of Henry's queens. I hope you find them interesting, if and when you get to them.

Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen is Alison Weir's tenth published novel and the fifth in the Six Tudor Queens series about the wives of Henry VIII, which was launched in … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Oddly enough, and somewhat surprising, King Henry VIII comes off as quite a nice guy. I am looking forward to the final novel, which isn’t available yet, but which I’m assuming will be about Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife.

Paperback Shop thousands of Books, Audio Books, DVDs, Calendars, Diaries and Stationery, then proceed to checkout. Despite knowing what will eventually happen, though, we are kept in suspense waiting for the moment when she will be betrayed and her secrets will be revealed to Henry. The household included several other young women who were also wards of the Duchess and it seems that there was very little supervision and discipline; Katheryn appears to have been easily influenced and sometimes even encouraged by the other girls to behave in a way that would have been seen as promiscuous in the 16th century. This one is #5 and I look forward to the final one about Katherine Parr.


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Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen is Alison Weir's tenth published novel and the fifth in the Six Tudor Queens series about the wives of Henry VIII, which was launched in 2016 to great critical acclaim.

Throughout the novel, Weir remains committed to keeping the reader true to Katheryn’s perspective, a decision I appreciated. Series: Six Tudor Queens

Finding out about events (like the fate of the “other” men in her life) only when Katheryn does. Glad to hear Weir didn’t disappoint with this one.

Then there’s Francis Dereham, with whom she was sexually involved before her marriage to the King; Francis won’t leave her alone, insisting that she had been pre-contracted to marry him before she ever met Henry, and Katheryn lives in fear of the King hearing of their relationship.

Her first work, Britain's Royal Families published 1989, was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. Henry declares she is his rose without a thorn.

I will give her another chance by starting to read this series. Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else, ISBN: 9781472227782 Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.

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I like Alison Weir’s biographies but think she isn’t that great as a novelist. Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen: A Novel - Ebook written by Alison Weir. But Katheryn has a past of which he knows nothing. Alison Weir’s Six Tudor Queens series aims to retell, in fictional form, the stories of all six of Henry VIII’s wives.

Learn how your comment data is processed. Weight (kg): 0.6 Weir explains in the Afterword that she used her extensive research, including the original testimony from the Privy Council investigation into Katheryn’s misdeeds, to piece together this narrative — but, like Katheryn, readers are kept in the dark. Katheryn is surprised to find that, despite the age difference, she is becoming genuinely fond of her obese and ailing husband.

Not surprisingly, there were moments when I felt Weir’s background in non-fiction and commitment to historical detail went overboard — making for some awkwardly inserted tangents and contrived dialog. She comes to court.

Note: The publisher gave me early access to this novel in exchange for writing an impartial review.