Ages since I posted and ages since I actually did any Tudor stitching but life has been crazy busy and just crazy around here lately! So sorry!
However, I have had time to listen to a great Tudor novel on Audible (when I go for my walk on my way home from work).
It is the first in a trilogy about "forgotten" Tudors. This first one is about Katherine Parr, Henry Viii's sixth wife. Here is the publisher's blurb about the novel:
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived: This is the story of the one who survived.
Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives—two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth—Katherine must wed Henry and rely on her wits and the help of her loyal servant Dot to survive the treacherous pitfalls of life as Henry’s queen. Yet as she treads the razor’s edge of court intrigue, she never quite gives up on love.
Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives—two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth—Katherine must wed Henry and rely on her wits and the help of her loyal servant Dot to survive the treacherous pitfalls of life as Henry’s queen. Yet as she treads the razor’s edge of court intrigue, she never quite gives up on love.
And here is a link to a review in The Guardian and to Elizabeth Fremantle's website.
As I said, I actually listened to the novel on Audible, and I enjoyed the narration immensely. If you are into "talking" books, then I can highly recommend "reading" it in that way.
I intend to download the 2nd and 3rd novels in the trilogy to listen to whilst I am away on our trip. The second novel is about Lady Jane Grey's two sisters (who survive her execution) and the third is set in Elizabeth II's court, towards the end of her reign. Both sound really good and are read by the same narrator as the first, whom I really enjoyed listening to.
Anyway, enough from me for now.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend,
hugs, Kaye
