Katherine the Queen : The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII

from wagner.sarah35

A good biography of Henry VIII's last wife. What I appreciated about this book was the depiction of Katherine's early years and first two marriages, before she became the wife of a king. Katherine's early life displays a great deal about what it was like to be a noblewoman in Tudor England, showi...

from satyridae

Meticulously researched, accessibly written and long overdue. I think almost everyone knows who Katherine Parr was, but a lot of what everyone knows about her is wrong. This book sets out to unearth the real woman behind the apocrypha, and for my money, succeeds. The analysis of her first two ma...

from briandrewz

This was an interesting look at the last wife of Henry VIII, Katherine Parr. Doing what she can to follow what little documented evidence there is of Parr's early life, the author follows Katherine's story from birth on the fringes of society to her first and second marriages as she gained greate...

from Whisper1

The sixth wife of Henry VIII was truly remarkable, and one of my favorite historical characters. Sharp and intelligent, she out foxed the members of Henry's court, and kept her life when it was in peril. A very kind mother to Henry's three children, she was sensitive to know that Mary, in particu...

from Pondlife

An interesting book, although a bit dry in places. I was quite interested in some of the characters connected with Katherine like Thomas Seymour who Elizabeth said had "much wit and very little judgement". I found some of the material fairly familiar, probably because there's so much coverage of ...