Queen's gambit / Elizabeth Fremantle.
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 424 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781476703060 (hardcover); 9781476703077 (trade paperback)Subject(s): Catharine Parr Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548 -- Fiction | Courts and courtiers -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823/.92 LOC classification: PR6106.R4547 | Q44 2013Summary: HISTORICAL FICTION. This brilliant historical fiction debut takes you into the heart of the Tudor court and the life and loves of the clever, charismatic Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and last wife. Widowed for the second time aged thirty-one Katherine Parr finds she has fallen deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of another: the ailing, egotistical and dangerously powerful monarch Henry VIII, who dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the continent. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives--two executions; two enforced annulments; one death in childbirth--Katherine is obliged to wed Henry Tudor and become his sixth queen.
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HISTORICAL FICTION. This brilliant historical fiction debut takes you into the heart of the Tudor court and the life and loves of the clever, charismatic Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth and last wife. Widowed for the second time aged thirty-one Katherine Parr finds she has fallen deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of another: the ailing, egotistical and dangerously powerful monarch Henry VIII, who dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the continent. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives--two executions; two enforced annulments; one death in childbirth--Katherine is obliged to wed Henry Tudor and become his sixth queen.
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