![]() This was one of the books that I first bought on Audible! ‘ The Last Wife of Henry VIII ‘ by Carolly Erickson is a book that I have been looking to buy for ages, but I never managed to find out until I downloaded the Audible app and got a free trail. Catherine won the contest, but at great cost. Her triumph was shadowed by rivalry with the young Princess Elizabeth, whose lands and influence the lecherous Seymour coveted. She was spared by his death and married the attractive but dangerously unbalanced Seymour. She managed to evade execution, but she knew that the king had his wandering eye fixed on wife number seven. King Henry toyed with her, first ordering her arrested, then granting her clemency. ![]() ![]() While victims of the king’s wrath suffered torture and execution, Catherine persevered-until, at last, she came within the orbit of the royal fury. Her story, as Carolly Erickson re-creates it, is page-turning drama: from the splendours of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to the gory last years of the outsize King Henry, when heads rolled and England trembled, Catherine bestrode her destiny and survived to marry her true love.Ĭatherine Parr attracted the king’s lust and, though much in love with the handsome Thomas Seymour, was thrown into the intrigue-filled snake pit of the royal court. The Last Wife of Henry VIII by Carolly EricksonĬourageous, attractive, romantic, intelligent, Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII. ![]()
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