The Sixth Wife: The Story of Katherine Parr-Fast Shipping

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Dangerous court intrigue and affairs of the heart collide as renowned novelist JeanPlaidy tells the story of Katherine Parr, the last of Henry VIII’s six queens.

HenryVIII’s fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was both foolish and unfaithful, and she paidfor it with her life. Henry vowed that his sixth wife would be different, and shewas. Katherine Parr was twice widowed and thirty-one years old. A thoughtful, well-readlady, she was known at court for her unblemished reputation and her kind heart. Shehad hoped to marry for love and had set her heart on Thomas Seymour, the dashingbrother of Henry’s third queen. But the aging king—more in need of a nurse than awife—was drawn to her, and Katherine could not refuse his proposal of marriage.

Queen Katherine was able to soothe the King’s notorious temper, and his three childrengrew fond of her, the only mother they had ever really known. Trapped in a lovelessmarriage to a volatile tyrant, books were Katherine’s consolation. But among herintellectual pursuits was an interest in Lutheranism—a religion that the king sawas a threat to his supremacy as head of the new Church of England. Courtiers enviousof the Queen’s influence over Henry sought to destroy her by linking her with the“radical” religious reformers. Henry raged that Katherine had betrayed him, and hada warrant drawn up for her arrest and imprisonment. At court it was whispered thatthe king would soon execute yet another wife. Henry’s sixth wife would have to relyon her wits to survive where two other women had perished. . . .