Ebook {Epub PDF} Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter

Linda's second book is. Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr. Her success as queen and stepmother was very important for the royal children. She helped restore Mary and Elizabeth to the succession and gave direction to the education of Edward. As regent of a country at war in , she was able and energetic. Verified Purchase. Linda Porter builds majestically the life story of Katherine Parr, the last wife of King Henry VIII. A woman I knew very little about until I read this book. Some of the aspects of her life as Queen were portrayed in the series The Tudors, but very superficially/5(60). Linda Porter delves into the Parr family's background, and gives full accounts on Katherine's first two husbands, Sir Edward Burgh, and John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer. Porter gives focus in particular to Katherine's second marriage, particularly during the Pilgrimage of Grace, when her husband was dragged into joining the rebellion, and Katherine and her stepchildren were held hostage/5(60).

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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 had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of –37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. In this, the first full-scale biography of Katherine Parr, Linda Porter illuminates the life of the queen history has largely forgotten - or at least misremembered. Twice widowed before her. Linda Porter's "Katherine the Queen" is an engaging and disturbing look at Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, the woman known to history as much for "surviving" marriage with the unpredictable king as for her increasingly pro-Protestant views at a time when Henry was determined to travel the path of moderation in his reformation of the Church.