Virgin: Prelude to the Throne

by RobinMaxwell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $17.99

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $35.12

  Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, banished from the court at the age of two, finds an ally in her father's sixth wife, Katherine Parr. Katherine offers motherly love and protection to the young princess and her brother Edward, and works to soften her father's heart and gain her readmittance to the Tudor fold. But when Henry dies and ten-year-old Edward is crowned King of England, a new era of instability begins for the young monarch and the sister he has left behind in Chelsea House. It is becoming clear that Katherine's new husband, Sir Thomas Seymour, has dangerous designs on the vulnerable teenage princess in his charge, and on the power to which she is the key...