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In the famous jingle 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,' Katherine Parr comes last - the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that - scholar, regent, and passionate young woman - as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
Read MoreHistory's most famous divorce shook the world and changed history, but it took much more than a king snapping his fingers to make it happen - obscure men on fast horses risked their livelihoods and their lives to line up the paperwork.
Read MoreA heartfelt debut novel about an innocent young woman who comes to the court of Henry VIII - except she's Anne Boleyn's cousin, so innocence isn't going to last very long!
Read MoreTeenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
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