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Title: The Rose Without a Thorn (The Wives of Henry VIII) by Jean Plaidy ISBN: 0-609-81017-0 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Compelling and Haunting
Comment: I recently bought this book along with Lady in the Tower, the other new Plaidy re-release. This shorter volume tells of Katharine Howard, the cousin of Anne Boleyn who also became queen of England and who also shared a similiar fate. Katharine is born into an impoverished branch of the Howard family, a very noble English family that is also very stable at court. When her powerful Grandmother comes to visit their meager country estate, Katharine intrigues her Grandmother and is whisked off to live at her Grandmother's large and beautiful estate. While there, her Grandmother neglects her and Katharine gives into the daring acts of the girls who work in the estate who share her bechamber. Katharine befriends her music teacher, Mannox, and invites him into her bed at night. The affair ends fast and one Francis Weston comes into Katharine's life. However, this ends once Katharine's Grandmother comes upon Francis and Katharine frolicking upon a parlor floor. Around this time Anne Boleyn is crowned queen and so the entire entourage and family moves to the Lambeth estate on the Thames River in London. Now Katharine falls for her own cousin, Thomas Culpepper. However, Katharine's powerful uncle has plans for his neice and finds her a place in Anne of Cleves short-lived entourage (Anne Boleyn has hence forth been executed and Jane Seymour has died). Henry VIII begins to notice Katharine and after demissing his marriage to Anne of Cleves, he courts Katharine and soon she is thrust onto the same stage her older cousin came upon a decade or so before. Katharine is wedded to the king in a short ceremony and soon begins her short reign as Queen of England. However, when rumors of her past affairs come back Katharine finds herself in danger. Franics Weston comes to court, as does Mannox, bringing back haunting memories that could cost Katharine her head. But when Katharine commits adultery with Thomas Culpepper one night, her fate is sealed. Henry, in his first happy marriage in decades, is brought the horrible news by those insanely jealous of Katharine's new fame and the Howard's rising fortune (even though they were already very dominant and had more power than the Tudors). Katharine is guilty, as are her lovers, and all are brought to the block or the gallows. And even on the scafold Katharine declared "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Thomas Culpepper". I loved this book and found it highly enjoyable. I find it no wonder that Jean Plaidy is acclaimed a sone of the greatest historical fiction writers ever. A haunting and compelling story full of intrigue and unexpected twists and turns, Katharine's story was a short lived one that is often overshadowed by her cousin's story, but is just as interesting.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rose Without a Thorn
Comment: This is an awesome book, I'd reccomend it to anyone who is interested in Tudor times or Kathryn Howard. We're all so lucky it came back into print! This book weaves a rich tapestry of romance, polotics in Tudor times, and other such subjects. Read it quickly.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Die A Queen...
Comment: This was a completely awesome book! I'd recomend it to anyone.
I read it when I was studying Kathyrn Howard for a report for school. I wasn't expecting much at all, but I got an awesome book.
I plan to buy it next moth when it comes back into print.
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Title: The Lady in the Tower (The Wives of Henry VIII) by Jean Plaidy ISBN: 1400047854 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Mary, Queen of France (The Tudor Princesses) by Jean Plaidy ISBN: 0609810219 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Thistle and the Rose : A Novel by Jean Plaidy ISBN: 0609810227 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn by Nell Gavin ISBN: 074140916X Publisher: Infinity Publishing.com Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Sixth Wife by Jean Plaidy ISBN: 0753164272 Publisher: ISIS Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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