Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
Perfect for anyone playing the Six soundtrack on repeat who wants to discover more about the six wives of Henry VIII! This is an edge-of-your-seat reimagining of the romance and tragedy that defined them, told from multiple points of view by award-winning and bestselling authors.
If you were one of King Henry VIII's six wives, who would you be? Would you be Anne Boleyn, who literally lost her head? The subject of rumor and scandal like Catherine Howard? Or would you survive like Anna of Cleves?
Meet all Henry's queens--each bound for divorce or death--in this epic novel that reads like fantasy but really happened. Watch spellbound as each wife attempts to survive their unpredictable king as he grows more obsessed with producing a male heir. And discover how the power-hungry court fanned the flames of Henry's passions . . . and his most horrible impulses.
Brought to life by seven award-winning and bestselling authors, here is an intimate look at the royals during one of the most treacherous times in history, perfect for anyone fascinated by Britain's Royal Family or Netflix's The Crown.
"Ambitious and exciting." --Bustle
"These stories of love, lust, power and intrigue never fail to fascinate." --Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
Who's Who:
M. T. Anderson - Henry VIII
Candace Fleming - Katharine of Aragon, wife #1
Stephanie Hemphill - Anne Boleyn, wife #2
Lisa Ann Sandell - Jane Seymour, wife #3
Jennifer Donnelly - Anna of Cleves, wife #4
Linda Sue Park - Catherine Howard, wife #5
Deborah Hopkinson - Kateryn Parr, wife #6
If you were one of King Henry VIII's six wives, who would you be? Would you be Anne Boleyn, who literally lost her head? The subject of rumor and scandal like Catherine Howard? Or would you survive like Anna of Cleves?
Meet all Henry's queens--each bound for divorce or death--in this epic novel that reads like fantasy but really happened. Watch spellbound as each wife attempts to survive their unpredictable king as he grows more obsessed with producing a male heir. And discover how the power-hungry court fanned the flames of Henry's passions . . . and his most horrible impulses.
Brought to life by seven award-winning and bestselling authors, here is an intimate look at the royals during one of the most treacherous times in history, perfect for anyone fascinated by Britain's Royal Family or Netflix's The Crown.
"Ambitious and exciting." --Bustle
"These stories of love, lust, power and intrigue never fail to fascinate." --Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
Who's Who:
M. T. Anderson - Henry VIII
Candace Fleming - Katharine of Aragon, wife #1
Stephanie Hemphill - Anne Boleyn, wife #2
Lisa Ann Sandell - Jane Seymour, wife #3
Jennifer Donnelly - Anna of Cleves, wife #4
Linda Sue Park - Catherine Howard, wife #5
Deborah Hopkinson - Kateryn Parr, wife #6
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Community Reviews
Absolutely loved this book! This is written like a journal / dairy if you will from each of the Queen's of Henry VIII, it also includes a short journal from the King himself after each Queen. The ones I found absolutely fasinating were the entries from:
Anne Boleyn and her take on why she felt she was beheaded....what an eye opener that was and boy was she smart...she really gave the court a run for their money and explains why the other queens were not able to go on trial after.
Anna of Cleves was very good as well and what a tramatic entrance into the court she had, her entries were well written, gave you a true sense of being there, I felt.
Catherine Howard, you really felt sorry for this young Queen. Especially because at this time the King was as big as a bear and his leg...what, forgot all about his leg from my history books.
Kateryn Parr....now this was one smart Queen and how she managed to turn her execution into a stay and continued to live with the King, as Queen until his death.
This book made me see such a different light on the whole Henry VIII and his 6 Queens. I loved how they put his journal on each wife afterwards, you got a feel of where his mind set was and why he did what he did. He was just a much a prisoner as the Queen's were, although they had it much worse. This was well wrtitten, flow was amazing, couldnt put this down for a second.
Anne Boleyn and her take on why she felt she was beheaded....what an eye opener that was and boy was she smart...she really gave the court a run for their money and explains why the other queens were not able to go on trial after.
Anna of Cleves was very good as well and what a tramatic entrance into the court she had, her entries were well written, gave you a true sense of being there, I felt.
Catherine Howard, you really felt sorry for this young Queen. Especially because at this time the King was as big as a bear and his leg...what, forgot all about his leg from my history books.
Kateryn Parr....now this was one smart Queen and how she managed to turn her execution into a stay and continued to live with the King, as Queen until his death.
This book made me see such a different light on the whole Henry VIII and his 6 Queens. I loved how they put his journal on each wife afterwards, you got a feel of where his mind set was and why he did what he did. He was just a much a prisoner as the Queen's were, although they had it much worse. This was well wrtitten, flow was amazing, couldnt put this down for a second.
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