Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir

Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir

This sumptuous novel in New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir's Six Tudor Queens series--"a vivid re-creation of a Tudor tragedy" (Kirkus Reviews)--details the life of nineteen-year-old Katheryn Howard, King Henry VIII's fifth wife.

"Absolutely stunning . . . Katheryn emerges from this beautifully realized portrayal as beguiling, vivacious, and, in the end, tragically naïve."--Tracy Borman, author of The Private Lives of the Tudors

Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his German queen, Anna of Kleve. Prematurely aged and with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England's premier Catholic peer, who is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A flirtatious, eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs to the king's attentions when she is pushed into his path by her ambitious family.

Henry quickly becomes besotted, and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the king's union to Anna is annulled. Henry tells the world that his new bride is a rose without a thorn and extols her virtue, while Katheryn delights in the pleasures of being queen and the rich gifts her adoring husband showers upon her: the gowns, the jewels, and the darling lapdogs. She comes to love the ailing, obese king, enduring his nightly embraces with fortitude and kindness. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete.

But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back to haunt her--even as she courts danger yet again.

Deborah Weir (Greenwich, CT) is president of Greenwich Consulting, a firm that provides money management and asset allocation services to institutional investors and wealthy individuals. Clients include senior portfolio managers at major financial institutions such as Chase Bank, Sumitomo Bank, and FleetBoston. Prior to forming Greenwich Advisors, Ms. Weir managed an approximately $500 million fixed income portfolio for Scudder Investments, investing in international securities and derivatives, as well as traditional bonds. By virtue of her experience in trading bonds, Ms. Weir has developed a stock market trading system which utilizes information from the fixed income market to determine market tops and bottoms; where we are in the economic cycle; and investor psychology. Her timing system has produced an overall return of 74% higher than what investor would achieve by simply holding onto stocks since 1960. Ms. Weir has written articles for Active Trader, Futures Magazine, and Journal of Cash Management. She is a Certified Financial Analyst and is the first woman president of the Stamford Society of Investment Analysts. She has appeared on local Connecticut television and radio as a financial expert.

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ISBN 13	9781101966624
ISBN 10	1101966629
Title	Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen
Author	Alison Weir
Series	Six Tudor Queens
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-05-18
Number of pages	496
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.