{"product_id":"katheryn-howard-the-scandalous-queen-six-tudor-queens-9781101966624","title":"Katheryn Howard the Scandalous Queen Six Tudor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England’s premier Catholic peer, who is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A flirtatious, eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs to the king’s attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Henry quickly becomes bes","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528803000663,"sku":"9781101966624","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781101966624.jpg?v=1731873071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/katheryn-howard-the-scandalous-queen-six-tudor-queens-9781101966624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}