![]() ![]() Catherine won the contest, but at great cost." Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling. Her triumph was shadowed by rivalry with the young Princess Elizabeth, whose lands and influence the lecherous Seymour coveted. She was spared by his death and married the attractive but dangeously unbalanced Seymour. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period. She managed to avoid execution, but she knew that the king had his wandering eye fixed on wife number seven. The Last Wife Of Henry VIII By Carolly Erickson - FictionDB. King Henry toyed with her, first ordering her arrested, then granting her clemency. While victims of the king's wrath suffered torture and execution, Catherine persevered until, at last, she came within the orbit of the royal fury. Catherine Parr attracted the king's lust and, though much in love with the handsome Thomas Seymour, was thrown into the intrigue-filled snake pit of the royal court. Her story, as Carolly Erickson re-creates it, is page-turning drama: from the splendors of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to the gory last years of the outsize King Henry, when heads rolled and England trembled, Catherine bestrode her destiny and survived to marry her true love. ![]() "Courageous, attractive, romantic, intelligent, Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII. ![]()
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