Author Name
PLAIDY, Jean [Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert]
Title Rose Without a Thorn The: The Wives of Henry VIII
Binding Softcover; Trade PB
Book Condition Very Good+
Size 278 pages
Publisher NY Three Rivers Press c1993, 2003
ISBN Number
0609810170 / 9780609810170
Seller ID 6604
No spine or cover creases, light edgewear. A very nice copy.; One of this prolific author's "Qeens of England" series. 'Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother’s puritanism is not shared by Katherine’s free-spirited cousins, with whom she lives. Beautiful and impressionable, Katherine becomes involved in two ill-fated love affairs before her sixteenth birthday. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, she leaves her grandmother’s home to become a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. The royal palaces are exciting to a young girl from the country, and Katherine finds that her duties there allow her to be near her handsome cousin, Thomas Culpepper, whom she has loved since childhood.
But when Katherine catches the eye of the aging and unhappily married king, she is forced to abandon her plans for a life with Thomas and marry King Henry. Overwhelmed by the change in her fortunes, bewildered and flattered by the adoration of her husband, Katherine is dazzled by the royal life. But her bliss is short-lived as rumors of her wayward past come back to haunt her, and Katherine’s destiny takes another, deadly, turn.'; This author also wrote as Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, and Eleanor Burford.
British Woman Author Katherine Howard Historical Fiction Novel Queen of England Henry VIII
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