Review: An enjoyable and at times, sad reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2013
"Dear Henry: Confessions of the Queens" by Judith Arnopp turned out to be a very enjoyable little book for me.  I'm more well-versed on WWII history than I am on Tudor history, so I learned a few things by reading this book with the beautiful cover.Disappointment never hits me concerning the length of a book, because I always look at the number of pages if given and if not, the size of the download and always know just what I'm getting.  Samples also help me to get a little taste of what I will or will not gain if I buy the book.What struck me most was the number of times that Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon rejoiced over a new baby only to be soon grief-stricken by its death or even by a stillborn baby. Their daughter, Mary, was their only surviving child.  No one can really know what these women thought shortly before their deaths from illness, or for one reason or another, or by the hand of the executioner, but they were real people with the feelings we all have.From Katherine of Aragon to the last of Henry's wives, Catherine Parr, each tells of her last days with her husband, the king, in an interesting and very human way.  I enjoyed it.