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With Thomas Cromwell fallen and her rival’s schemes in ruins, Katharine Howard stands at the summit of Tudor power as Henry VIII’s crowned queen. Yet the court she now presides over is no less treacherous for the removal of its greatest schemer. Around her, Protestant and Catholic factions maneuver ceaselessly for mastery of the king’s conscience, and the very virtues that won Katharine Henry’s devotion—her candor, her learning, her uncompromising piety—make her enemies as readily as they make her friends.
Ford Madox Ford’s concluding volume of The Fifth Queen trilogy traces the arc of Katharine’s...