Weir, Alison,  1951-, <br/><br/>
Katheryn Howard, the scandalous queen / 
 Catharine Howard :  the scandalous queen  Katherine Howard :  the scandalous queen  Scandalous queen 
Alison Weir. 
 - Large print edition. 
 - 729 pages (large print) :  genealogical tables ;  23 cm. 
 - Six Tudor queens ;  [5] Thorndike Press large print historical fiction .
 - Weir, Alison,  1951-.  Six Tudor queens ;  05. .
<br/><br/> Optimized reading formats.  The text of this large print edition is unabridged.  Set in 16 pt. Plantin. 
<br/><br/> In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII, desperate to be rid of his queen, Anna of Kleve, first sets eyes on the enchanting Katheryn Howard. Although the king is now an ailing forty-nine-year-old measuring fifty-four inches around his waist, his amorous gaze lights upon the pretty teenager. Seated near him intentionally by her ambitious Catholic family, Katheryn readily succumbs to the courtship. Henry is besotted with his bride. He tells the world she is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue. Katherine delights in the pleasures of being queen and the power she has to do good to others. She comes to love the ailing, obese king and tolerate his nightly attentions. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her, even as she courts danger yet again. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781432877347 1432877348 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England,  -1542. <br/>Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England,  d. 1542 --Fiction.<br/>Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England,  -1542. <br/>Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England,  -1542 --Fiction.<br/>Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England,  -1542 --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1500-1599 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Large type books.<br/>FICTION / Historical / Renaissance.<br/>FICTION / Biographical.<br/>FICTION / Sagas.<br/>Courts and courtiers.<br/>Queens.<br/>Large type books.<br/>Courts and courtiers--Fiction.<br/>Extortion--Fiction.<br/>Queens--Great Britain--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England.<br/>Great Britain.<br/>England--Court and courtiers--History--16th century--Fiction.<br/>Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Large type books.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>History.<br/>Biographical fiction.<br/>Fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Biographical fiction.<br/>Large type books<br/>Historical fiction.<br/>Biographical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.92