Queen Katherine Parr

Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330536004

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Katherine the Queen by Linda Porter Pdf

‘Linda Porter has done a marvellous job in bringing Katherine Parr to life. In so doing, she evokes the whole terrifying and exciting world of the Tudor courts, packed with intrigue and danger’ A.N. Wilson, Reader’s Digest In this, the first full-scale biography of Katherine Parr, Linda Porter illuminates the life of the queen history has largely forgotten - or at least misremembered. Twice widowed before her marriage to the king, she was not as well versed in the ways of monarchs and her fervent political and religious views made waves in the treacherous waters of the Tudor court. The queen who 'survived' did so only by the skin of her teeth. And though the story of her life has been curiously neglected, she left an enduring impression on English history. 'Colourful and well paced . . . Katherine's was indeed a remarkable life’ Matthew Dennison, Mail on Sunday ‘[A] nuanced picture of family allegiances and intellectual background’ Jenny Uglow, Financial Times

Author : Susan James
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462523

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Catherine Parr by Susan James Pdf

This title presents the turbulent life and loves of Henry VIII's sixth wife. Romantic, chaotic, and terrifying, Catherine Parr's life unfolded like a romance novel. Wed at 17 to the grandson of a confirmed lunatic then widowed at 20, Catherine chose a Yorkshire lord twice her age as her second husband. Caught up in the turbulent terrors of the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, she was captured by northern rebels, held hostage, and suffered violence at their hands. Fleeing to the south shortly afterward, Catherine took refuge in the household of the Princess Mary and in the arms of the king's brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Seymour. Her employment in Mary's household brought her to the attention of Mary's father, the unpredictable Henry VIII. Desperately in love with Seymour, Catherine was forced into marriage with a king whose passion for her could not be hidden and who was determined to make her his queen.

Author : Queen Catharine Parr (consort of Henry VIII, King of England)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226647241

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Katherine Parr by Queen Catharine Parr (consort of Henry VIII, King of England) Pdf

To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry’s wife and queen of England, she was a noted patron of the arts and music and took a personal interest in the education of her stepchildren, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince Edward. Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman to publish under her own name in English in England. For this new edition, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to Parr—Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand—as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture. She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr’s sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr’s letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women’s writing, and Tudor politics.

Author : Elizabeth Norton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445606798

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Catherine Parr by Elizabeth Norton Pdf

Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII.

Author : Catharine Parr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838039007

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The Lamentation of a Sinner by Catharine Parr Pdf

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101966648

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Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir Pdf

Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England. “A superb read and a remarkable end to a brilliant series.”—Historical Novel Society Having sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixes his lonely eyes on a more mature woman, thirty-year-old, twice-widowed Katharine Parr. She, however, is in love with Sir Thomas Seymour, brother to the late Queen Jane. Aware of his rival, Henry sends him abroad, leaving Katharine no choice but to become Henry’s sixth queen in 1543. The king is no longer in any condition to father a child, but Katharine is content to mother his three children, Mary, Elizabeth, and the longed-for male heir, Edward. Four years into the marriage, Henry dies, leaving England’s throne to nine-year-old Edward—a puppet in the hands of ruthlessly ambitious royal courtiers—and Katharine's life takes a more complicated turn. Thrilled at this renewed opportunity to wed her first love, Katharine doesn't realize that Sir Thomas now sees her as a mere stepping stone to the throne, his eye actually set on bedding and wedding fourteen-year-old Elizabeth. The princess is innocently flattered by his attentions, allowing him into her bedroom, to the shock of her household. The result is a tangled tale of love and a struggle for power, bringing to a close the dramatic and violent reign of Henry VIII.

Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0312616961

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Katherine the Queen by Linda Porter Pdf

The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty years old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536–37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Her life had been dramatic even before she became queen and it would remain so after Henry's death. She hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, and died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548. Her brief happiness was undermined by the very public flirtation of her husband and stepdaughter, Princess Elizabeth. She was one of the most influential and active queen consorts in English history, and this is her story.

Author : Elizabeth Fremantle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476703077

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Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle Pdf

A tale inspired by the life of Henry VIII's sixth wife follows her reluctant marriage to the egotistical and powerful king in spite of her love for Thomas Seymour, a situation that compels her to make careful choices in a treacherous court.

Author : Susan E. James
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047593481

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Kateryn Parr by Susan E. James Pdf

Arguably the first queen of the English Reformation, Kateryn Parr's life and works are seminal to an understanding of the Tudor period."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anthony K. Martienssen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015027906497

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Queen Katherine Parr by Anthony K. Martienssen Pdf

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476758794

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The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory Pdf

Reimagines the story of Henry VIII's sixth wife, Kateryn Parr, who after being forced to marry the king struggles against dangerous adversaries to observe her own faith and promote religious reforms.

Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0230749550

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Katherine the Queen by Linda Porter Pdf

The general perception of Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a matronly consort to nurse him. This book reveals that she was more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto been realized.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781705103920

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Six: The Musical - Vocal Selections by Anonim Pdf

(Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.

Author : David Starkey
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061842160

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Six Wives by David Starkey Pdf

“Extraordinary. . . . It is a tribute to Starkey’s narrative drive, his puckish wit, and sharp discrimination that it doesn’t seem a page too long. . . . With each queen, Starkey offers a vivid character study but also has fresh discoveries that subtly alter the picture he started out with.” — Sunday Times (London) The dramatic, legendary story of Henry VIII, his six wives, and the England they ruled—told by one of the world’s preeminent historians of the Tudor era. Perhaps no one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were tumultuous and complicated, and made instant legends of six very different women. Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was 17. Their 24-year marriage was a relatively stable prelude to what followed. Anne Boleyn, a pretty, French-educated Protestant who was the mother of Elizabeth I, was eventually beheaded. Jane Seymour served as a demure contrast to the vampish Boleyn, and gave birth to Henry’s longed-for son (Edward VI). After a brief marriage to the plain Anne of Cleves, Henry married a flirtatious teenager, Catherine Howard, who would be the second of his brides to lose her head along with the king’s favor. Finally, there was Catherine Parr, a shrewd Protestant bluestocking. In this brilliant new work, one of the world’s most respected historians weaves startling new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama and political intrigue that attended Henry’s six marriages. With a keen eye for both the personal and the global stage, David Starkey masterfully recaptures the Tudor era—and the wives of Henry VIII—as only he can.

Author : Luise Mühlbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Courts and courtiers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010744043

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Henry VIII. and His Court by Luise Mühlbach Pdf