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Book SynopsisSometime before 1518 Edward Seymour, the brother of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife ofHenry VIII, married Catherine Filliol. Catherine gained connections in the highest echelons ofTudor society and Edward the prospect of a large inheritance. It should have been a matchmade in heaven, but instead, within a decade, they were engulfed in uncertainty and scandal.Catherine was repudiated, and the two sons she had borne her husband eventually disinherited. The nature of this scandal is unclear but later historians accused Catherine of an affair with herfather-in-law. Her exact fate remains uncertain, but by 1535, Edward was free to marry again, andhe turned his attention to another heiress, Anne Stanhope, who would, in her own way,prove tobe just as scandalous. Katherine Parr would call Anne that hell, but she was strong,opinionated and fiercely intelligent. A friend of Anne Askew, a connection that almost cost herher life, Anne lived to see her brother-in-law, her half-brother, and her hus
