Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen (Hardcover)

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Very long read!!!! Wow! Six hundred pages detailing the life of Katherine of Aragon. As the first wife of Henry the Eighth, she was married to him the longest and I do believe that she loved him better than his subsequent wives. The pressure to bear an heir was tremendously overwhelming in her ti...

from wishanem

Insightful, tragic, and educational, but not fun. I didn't know much about Katherine of Aragon, and only a little about her awful second husband Henry VIII. The story of her life was interesting throughout, though very sad. I really appreciated the way that the values and priorities of the charac...

from cyderry

I've been wanting to read this series for a long time, because I have been interested in British Royalty since a child and read the Last Plantagents by Thomas Costain. The BBC series on the 6 Wives of Henry VIII in the 70's was fantastic and only fueled my interest. So why did I have such a hard ...

from Cariola

Sometimes I wonder why I bother to read any new books on the Tudors. Yes, I am rather a Tudor junkie But the point is: what is there to learn that's really new? And in fictional accounts, most new approaches are highly unsatisfying, usually sexing up the heroines and adding a lot of anachronistic...

from flourgirl49

OK, I like reading novels about the wives of Henry VIII, but I have read quite a few of them and maybe it's time to stop. This particular book about Katherine of Aragon (and there's 5 more coming in this series) will immerse you in what seems to be every single conversation that Katherine ever ha...