The Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr: What Really Happened to Henry VIII's Last Queen?

An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the Tudor monarch that paints a vivid picture of the last days of a powerful queen. She was the ultimate Tudor survivor, the queen who managed to outwit and outlive Henry VIII. Yet just over eighteen months after his passing, Katherine Parr was dead. She had been one of the most powerful people in the country, even ruling England for her royal husband, yet she had died hundreds of miles from court and been quickly buried in a tiny chapel with few royal trappings. The final days of Henry VIII's last queen included a faithless husband and rumors of a royal affair while the weeks after her funeral swirled with whispers of poison and murder. Her grave was lost for centuries only for her corpse to be mutilated after it was rediscovered during a tea party. The Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr dives into the calamitous and tumultuous events leading up to the queen's last hours and the bizarre happenings that followed her passing. From the elaborate embalming of her body, that left it in a state of perfect preservation for almost three centuries despite a burial just yards from her place of death, to the still unexplained disappearance, without trace, of her baby, the many questions surrounding the death of Queen Katherine are examined in a new light. Royal author and historian June Woolerton brings together, for the first time, all the known accounts of the strange rediscovery of Katherine's tomb and the even odder decision to leave it open to the elements and graverobbers for decades to ask—how did Katherine Parr really die?

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E-bog: 30. maj 2024