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In the best-selling and critically-acclaimed writer of The Hidden Diary of Marie-Antoinette comes a strong new book about Catherine Parr, The Wife of Henry VIII. The least-known of Henry VIII’s six spouses was the smartest of all of them. Appealing, witty, and inspiring, she attracted the king’s lust and, although much in love with the fine Thomas Seymour, was tossed in to the interest-filled snakepit of the regal court. While sufferers of the king’s wrath suffered pain and delivery, Catherine survived the assault, even if Carol wanted to displace her with wife number seven. She survived her noble spouse, and found joy with Seymour---but it was shadowed by competition with the young Princess Elizabeth, whose love Seymour desired. The contest was won by Catherine, but at great price.