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Linda Porter

Katherine the Queen

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“Rich, perceptive, nuanced and creative, this first full-scale biography gives one of Britain's best but least-known queens her due.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536–37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Her life had been dramatic even before she became queen and it would remain so after Henry's death. She hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, and died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548. Her brief happiness was undermined by the very public flirtation of her husband and step-daughter, Princess Elizabeth. She was one of the most influential and active queen consorts in English history, and this is her story.
“Missing ‘The Tudors’ TV show? The story continues in this biography of Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Katherine Parr.” —New York Post
“Linda Porter has done a marvellous job in bringing Katherine Parr to life. In so doing, she evokes the whole terrifying and exciting world of the Tudor courts, packed with intrigue and danger.” —A.N. Wilson, author of Victoria: A Life
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518 páginas impressas
Publicação original
2010
Ano da publicação
2010
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