The King's Pleausre/The Day the World Ended/My Life with Martin Luther King,Jr./n This House of Brede/The Black Camels [antikvár]

When Katharine of Aragon was fif teen her mother warned her that the world would betray her. But not even the embittered Queen Isabella of Spain could visualize the drama of her pretty daughter s fate.Widowed at sixteen, Katharine knew eight years of loneliness before handsome young King Henry VIII claimed her hand. Then blissfully happy, passionately in love, she lived with all the splendor of a majestic age, and waited hopefully for a royal heir. When Henry cast her aside for Anne Boleyn, Katharine bore her humiliation with dignity and without self-pity. Her love for the king never wavered, and she looked upon him as her husband to the end.Brought to life in this vibrant novel are many of history's most dramatic figuresFerdinand and Isabella of Spain, Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and the redoubtable Henry VIIIand overshadowing them all is Katharine, Henry's first and noblest queen.