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Six Tudor queens volume 5
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English
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"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. 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,...
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Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, beautiful Katherine Howard is sent to live with her grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Left to run wild in her grandmother's household, Katherine has two ill-fated love affairs before her sixteenth birthday. When Katherine becomes a lady-in-waiting in the court of King Henry VIII, she catches the eye of the aging king, who is desperate for a male heir. She becomes Henry's fifth...
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