KATHERINE THE QUEEN - TALK AND BOOK SIGNING WITH LINDA PORTER
31st March 2010

Award winning biographer and historian Linda Porter will be talking about her new book 'Katherine the Queen' - The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr at Sudeley Castle on Wednesday 31st March.

2.00pm - Katherine the Queen
Linda will be giving a talk on her new book - Katherine the Queen -  then answering questions.

Venue: St Mary’s Church, Sudeley Castle.  

Tickets: Â£10, which includes admission to the gardens and exhibitions.

3.00pm - Book signing with Linda Porter
Linda will be signing copies of her new book in the Long Room in the exhibition area.

Copies of Linda's book - Katherine the Queen - will be available to purchase at £20 per copy.

About the Book

KATHERINE THE QUEEN
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF KATHERINE PARR

A fascinating portrait of Henry VIII’s last Queen

All that most people know about Katherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth wife, is that she ‘survived’. She has often been dismissed as a matronly figure who nursed Henry as his health declined and made little impact in the drama–ridden Tudor court. The truth, however, is much more interesting. Linda Porter reveals that she was, in reality, one of the most influential, intriguing and tragic queen consorts in English history.

Katherine was only thirty when she married the king. Beautiful, passionate, radical and highly intelligent, there was even a moment in their three-year marriage when she almost became the third of Henry’s wives to lose her head, and was saved only by her own quick wits and the old king’s affection.

Katherine’s life had been filled with drama and tragedy even before she became queen. It would remain so after Henry’s death, when she secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, believing she had at last found true love. But her happiness was brief. Rumours spread through the court about Seymour’s open flirtations with Katherine’s own step-daughter, the young Princess Elizabeth. Tragically with the heartbreaking scandal still at its height, she died giving birth to her only child.

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