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Katharine of Aragon : a novel / Jean Plaidy.

Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993 (Author). Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993 Katharine, the virgin widow. (Added Author). Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993 Shadow of the pomegranate. (Added Author). Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993 King's secret matter. (Added Author).

Summary:

As a teenager, Katharine leaves her beloved Spain, land of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the drab, rainy island of England. There she is married to the king's eldest son, Arthur, a sickly boy who dies six months after the wedding. Katharine is left a widow who was never truly a wife, lonely in a strange land, with a very bleak future. Her only hope of escape is to marry the king's second son, Prince Henry, now heir to the throne. Tall, athletic, handsome, a lover of poetry and music, Henry is all that Katharine could want in a husband. But their first son dies and, after many more pregnancies, only one child survives, a daughter. Disappointed by his lack of an heir, Henry's eye wanders, and he becomes enamored of another woman-a country nobleman's daughter named Anne Boleyn. When Henry begins searching for ways to put aside his loyal first wife, Katharine must fight to remain Queen of England and to keep the husband she once loved so dearly.

Record details

ISBN: 0609810251 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: 661 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Three Rivers Press, [2005]
Copyright: ©2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: London : Hale, 1968. Combined ed. of three novels previously published separately.
Formatted Contents Note:	Katharine, the virgin widow -- The shadow of the pomegranate -- The king's secret matter.