Description - Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell
England July 1540: it is one of the hottest summers on record and the court of Henry VIII is embroiled, once again, in political scandal. Anne Cleves is out. Thomas Cromwell is to be executed and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly unpredictable monarch…
Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour – secrets were impossible to keep. In this thrilling reappraisal of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Gareth Russell’s history unfurls as if in real time to explain how the queen’s career ended with one of the great scandals of Henry’s reign. This is a grand tale of the Henrician court in its twilight, a glittering but pernicious sunset during which the king’s unstable behaviour and his courtiers’ labyrinthine deceptions proved fatal to many, not just to Catherine Howard.
Buy Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Available to order, ships in 7-10 business days
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the “Titanic” and the End of the Edwardian Era
Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World: The Sinking of the “Titanic” and the End of the Edwardian Era
