Upon meeting her future husband, Katherine began to sense the awkwardness of the situation, for this was a man who did not show the raw attraction or curiosity she was told to expect. And while I got a sense of Katherine from this (or rather, Alison's take on her), she just barely pushed past one-dimensional for me--far from the characters written by Margaret George or Sandra Gulland, for example. Anne, you hoe biscuit, even though you went out of your way to make sure this woman and her child suffered, this was a bittersweet moment because without you, Elizabeth I would never have been born. She has witnessed the danger and deceit that lie behind courtly play, and knows she must bear a son .

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But now, far from court and heavy with her husband’s child, Anne prays in the Hungerford chapel, and awaits the ghostly figure she knows will come. This is her story, one that entwines with the fate of another Lady Hungerford from not so many years before. Anyone who is most familiar with Katherine as the old, staid wife who gets elbowed out by Anne Boleyn may well find this an enlightening read. with Catherine who will always refuse to divorce and renounce the validity of their marriage, recognizing the dispensation received at the time by Julius II as valid.A historian uses such inventiveness at her peril – but a novelist has the power to get inside her heroine’s head, which can afford insights that would not be permissible to a historian, yet can have a legitimate value of their own – although I believe that the fictionalised version must be compatible with what is known about the subject. It was a world dominated by faith and by momentous religious change – and a world in which there were few saints.

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Caterina rimase sempre ferma nella fede, senza cedere di un passo nel considerarsi la vera Regina d' Inghilterra, non abiurerà mai, ne rinuncerà al bene e all' amore che sempre ripose nei confronti di suo marito, ormai sposato con la Bolena.Her loss of so many children while being married to Henry, was so tragic and yet her Christian faith allowed her to continue on. The King’s Painter by bestselling historian Alison Weir is an e-short and companion piece to the captivating fourth novel in the Six Tudor Queens series, Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets. Like many, I was failed by my history teachers, who I remember dismissed Katherine’s almost twenty-four year marriage in their haste to get on to the ‘interesting’ bits.