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Written with a thrilling blend of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth partner of Henry VIII, breaks new floor in our understanding of the young girl who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political pressure and whose horrible errors in common sense quickly led her to the executioner's stop. On the morning hours of July 28, 1540, as Ruler Henry's VIII's previous confidant Thomas Cromwell was being led to his execution, an adolescent named Catherine Howard started her reign as queen of any country simmering with rebellion and terrifying doubt. Sixteen weeks later the king's fifth partner would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been convicted of adultery and high treason. The broad outlines of Catherine's job might be familiar, but her report until recently has been incomplete. Unlike prior accounts of her life, which portray her as a naïve victim of your ambitious family, this powerful and authoritative biography will shed new light on Catherine Howard's surge and downfall by reexamining her motives and exhibiting her in her framework, a milieu that should go beyond her family and the influential men of the court docket to add the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her. By illuminating Catherine's entwined upstairs/downstairs worlds as well as societal tensions beyond the palace wall surfaces, the author offers a fascinating portrayal of court docket life in the 16th hundred years and a brand new evaluation of the forces beyond Catherine's control that led to her execution - from diplomatic pressure and international politics to the long-festering resentments up against the queen's household at court docket. Young and Damned and Good changes our understanding of one of history's most famous women while revealing to the compelling and incredibly human report of complex individuals attempting to survive in an unhealthy age.
