KATHERYN HOWARD, THE SCANDALOUS QUEEN

Novel. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII is desperate to be rid of his unappealing German queen, Anna of Kleve. A prematurely aged and ailing forty-nine, with an ever-growing waistline, he casts an amorous eye on a pretty nineteen year old brunette, Katheryn Howard, and she readily succumbs to the king's attentions when she is pushed into his path by her ambitious family.