Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII

"Rich, perceptive, nuanced and creative, this first full-scale biography gives one of Britain's best but least-known queens her due." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

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 h...