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Subject: [GM] KATHARINE OF ARAGON & HENRY VIII
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:42:17 EST

SHADOW OF THE POMEGRANATE, By Jean Plaidy, 1st American edition, 1994,
(c)1962 by author. Based on the lives in the Royal Courts of England & Spain.
A colorful historical tapestry, this time around the seemingly ideal marriage
of Katharine & Henry seemed ideal. Katharine, 5 years older than Henry is
attractive and eager to please. Her insignia is the Pomegranate, the Arabic
sign of fertility, she will give the King what he desires most: an heir to
the throne. But tragedy strikes when their infant son, 52 days old dies. A
series of disastrous miscarriages encourages the King's wandering eye,
Katharine is trapped between a greedy, manipulative father, King Ferdinand,
and a husband with both a lust for power and other women. Hardback with
dustjacket, 221 pages, VG+. $15 postpaid.

THE KING'S SECRET MATTER, By Jean Plaidy, 1st American edition 1995, (c)
1962 by Jean Plaidy. Hardback with dustjacket, 285 pages. The 12-year
marriage of Henry and Katharine has declined from an idyllic union into an
uneasy stalemate. His love for the aging Queen has grown cold, & he is angry
with her failure to give him the son he desperately wants. When the seductive
Anne Boleyn arrives at court, the king is captivated by her dark beauty &
bold spirit, & becomes obsessed with his desire to possess her. With Cardinal
Wolsey, chief advisor, the king devises a secret plot to declare the marriage
null & void, but Katharine fights desperately to retain her title and
safeguard her daughter's legitimacy. It becomes one of the turning points in
English history. $15. postpaid.

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