Full name: A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Catherine Howard

Author: Lacey Baldwin Smith Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781848682146 184868214X

A biography of Henry VIII of England's fifth wife, beheaded for playing Henry at his own game - adultery. At seven o'clock on the morning of 13th February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was escorted across the yard and carefully helped up the steps of the wooden scaffold. Only a small group of sightseers had gathered to watch the death of a queen; there was no weeping, no remorse, only chilly curiosity. The ax rose and fell, a life ceased, an episode came to an end. The life and death of Catherine was truly a Tudor tragedy. A mere teenager, the vivacious and flirty Catherine Howard was an unsuitable bride for the elderly and fat Henry VIII. Like most of Henry's wives she had come to his attention at court whilst lady-in-waiting to his fourth wife of only a few months, Anne of Cleves. Henry was soon besotted and came to adore Catherine, his 'very jewel of womanhood'. His head already turned by the 19 year old, Henry never consummated his marriage to Anne, he divorced her and married for the fifth time on 28th July 1540. Lacey Baldwin Smith, one of the finest historians of the Tudor age, narrates the rise and fall of the most tragic of Henry's queens, the woman who dared to cuckold the king of England. Similar books: Katherine the Queen by Linda Porter Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn by Retha M. Warnicke Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox The Other Tudors by Philippa Jones Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett The Sisters of Henry VIII by Maria Perry The Last Days of Henry VIII by Robert Hutchinson Divorced, Beheaded, Survived by Karen Lindsey Arbella by Sarah Gristwood Henry by David Starkey Henry VIII by Alison Weir Mary Tudor by H. F. M. Prescott Anne of Cleves by Elizabeth Norton The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown