Author: PLAIDY, JEAN
Title: Rose without a Thorn
Description: London, Robert Hale. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709051840). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little light foxing to top edge) with VG dustjacket. The eleventh novel in the Queens of England series. The 'Rose without a thorn' was the name given by Henry VIII to his fifth wife, Katherine Howard, when he was a devoted and uxorious husband. Born to an impoverished branch of the Howard family, Katherine was, at an early age, taken into the household of her grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, who neglected her upbringing. 255 pages. She planned an idyllic future with her kinsman, Thomas Culpepper, who gained her affection, and this was a possibility, until she was given a place at Court in the new Queen's household, and there she was noticed by the King. NOT EX LIB D4E. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Henry VIII, Katherine Howard, Henry Manox, Francis Derham, Thomas Culpepper, Duke of Norfolk 0709051840


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