The queen's governess
By: Karen Harper
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780399156182
Description: Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.