![]() ![]() And Katharine had no children in her previous two marriages, so the fact that she might not be able to have children must have crossed his mind. Why he chose Katharine is a bit of a mystery, what with Henry obsessed with the line of succession and only having one son in a time when many children did not live to adulthood. And for the most part, Henry treated her well. ![]() Katharine was really in love with Thomas Seymour, Jane Seymour’s older brother and uncle to Prince Edward, but once Henry sets his sights on her, she could not refuse him, choosing her sense of duty instead of love. It wasn’t until Katharine went to court and met Henry that things picked up for me. Her early life and marriages make up the first 40% of the book, and while many of the events were historically accurate I came to find out while listening to The Six Wives of Henry VIII on audiobook, also by Weir, I was pretty bored. Then, she was married to a man who had teenagers and two wives buried. The marriage was short-lived because her husband died. The book begins when Katharine is a child, and as she comes of age, her marriage to a man in his early 20’s. I knew nothing of Katharine Parr beyond the fact that she was Henry VIII’s last wife, and that she outlived him. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it took me quite a while to get into the book. ![]()
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