{"product_id":"book-dsr7","title":"Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eIn the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen-year-old brunette, Katheryn Howard. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, beheaded four years earlier, Katheryn is a niece of the Duke of Norfolk, England's premier Catholic peer, who is scheming to replace Anna of Kleve with a good Catholic queen. A fun-loving, eager participant in the life of the royal court, Katheryn readily succumbs to the king's attentions when she is intentionally pushed into his path by her ambitious family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: start\"\u003eHenry quickly becomes besotted and is soon laying siege to Katheryn's virtue. But as instructed by her relations, she holds out for marriage, and the wedding takes place a mere fortnight after the king's union to Anna is annulled. Henry tells the world that his new bride is a rose without a thorn, and extols her beauty and her virtue, while Katheryn delights in the pleasures of being queen and the rich gifts her adoring husband showers upon her: the gorgeous gowns, the exquisite jewels, the darling lapdogs. She comes to love the ailing, obese king, enduring his nightly embraces with fortitude and kindness. If she can bear him a son, her triumph will be complete. But Katheryn has a past of which Henry knows nothing, and which comes back increasingly to haunt her-even as she courts danger yet again. What happens next to this naïve and much-wronged girl is one of the saddest chapters in English history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49370191331632,"sku":"BDdsr7","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49370191429936,"sku":"ZEdsr7","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49370191364400,"sku":"ZMdsr7","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dsr7-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782405993","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dsr7","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}