Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen

Six Tudor Queens, Book 1

De: Alison Weir

Narrado por: Maggie Mash

The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories, and Alison Weir writes a series of novels that offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research and new theories.

In all the romancing, has anyone regarded the evidence that Anne Boleyn did not love Henry VIII? Or that Prince Arthur, Katherine of Aragon's first husband, who is said to have loved her, in fact cared so little for her that he willed his personal effects to his sister? Or that Henry VIII, an overprotected child and teenager, was prudish when it came to sex? That Jane Seymour, usually portrayed as Henry's one true love, had the makings of a matriarch? There is much to reveal....

Alison writes about the wives in the contexts of their own ages and of the court intrigues that surrounded these women and - without exception - wrecked their lives. She will transport listeners into a lost and vivid world of splendour and brutality: a world in which love, or the game of it, dominates all.

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Live the story

It's so easy to gloss over the amazing events of Henry VIII's life with a sentence or two. Katherine of Aragon is often dismissed with a few words as Henry's first wife yet she shared more than twenty years with him, had six pregnancies of which only one produced a surviving child, Princess Mary, and she died as a virtual prisoner when he decided to get rid of her to marry Ann Boleyn. In this remarkable book, Alison Weir brings her story to life, through careful research of contemporary sources, so you feel as though you live through the whole saga at Katherine's side. A great addition to her body of historical work and a really engaging audiobook.

As close to the true story as you are going to get

Tells the story behind the story and brilliantly narrated! A history boff's must. Highly recommended for anyone fascinated by King Henry and the Tudor ways.

Heartbreakingly good

intense and informative, such a wonderful portrayal of Catherine. Very much recommended. Gave wonderful insight.

Slow but steady

The awful narration irratates as the story plods. To be honest, I never noticed other bad reviews about the performance, but after this book, ai..... Not sure I will listen to anymore of this narrator.