Queen's gambit
By: Elizabeth Fremantle
Series: Fremantle, Elizabeth. Tudor trilogy -- 1.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781405909389
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Courts and courtiers; Fiction; History
Description: Katherine Parr is 31 years old and already twice widowed. She's in love with a man she can't have, and about to wed a man no-one would want - for her husband-to-be is none other than Henry VIII, who has already beheaded two wives, cast aside two more, and watched one die in childbirth. What will become of Katherine once she's wearing Henry Tudor's ring and becomes Queen of England? They say that the sharpest blades are sheathed in the softest pouches. Only time will tell what she is really made of ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.