by Dr David Starkey (Author), Dr David Starkey (Author)
THE QUEENS OF HENRY V111:Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: CATHERINE OF ARAGON the Catholic Spanish Princess, who suffered years of miscarriages and still births and yet failed to produce a son...She was the mother of Mary Tudor; ANNE BOLEYN, the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant with whom Henry Vlll was madly in love.-. for a brief period. She was the mother of Elizabeth I; JANE SEYMOUR the demure and submissive contrast to Anne Boleyn's vampish style. She died soon after giving birth to the longed-for son (Edward VI); ANNE OF CLEVES, 'the Flanders mare': He was horrified because she was so plain and she was appalled because he was so fat...; CATHERINE HOWARD, the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the ageing king; CATHERINE PARR, the shrewd Protestant bluestocking who outlived him.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 880
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 27 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0701172983
ISBN 13: 9780701172985
Book Overview: Another winner from David Starkey -impeccable scholarship and new research combined with lively characterisation and racy narrative wilI assure prestige as welI as popularity.