Their happy household was thrown asunder when the Pilgrimage of Grace and Robert Aske knocked on their door and asked for help. They may have differed when it came to their views on religion, but they did seem to love each other. Although they had no children of their own, like Katharine’s marriage to Edward Burgh, it was a happy relationship.
Katharine’s second husband, John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer, was her longest marriage. I think Weir has a unique spin on Katharine’s life with Edward Burgh and their marriage, but it did not last long as Edward Burgh would die in 1533. Katharine’s first husband, Sir Edward Burgh, was just a boy who followed whatever his father, Sir Thomas Burgh, asked him to do. It was unique to see how her childhood helped shaped what type of queen she would become as her mother pushed hard for her daughters to be well educated. Katharine Parr’s story begins with her childhood and her connection with her family.
Katharine Parr has been my favorite wife of King Henry VIII for a while now and I wanted to read a novel about her life, to see what Weir’s interpretation of her life story would be like. Like many people, I know what happened with Katharine during her marriage to Henry VIII and her fourth marriage to Thomas Seymour, but I am not well informed when it comes to her first two marriages. I have enjoyed the Six Tudor Queens series so far and I was looking forward to reading the last book. I would like to thank NetGalley and Random House/ Ballantine Books for sending me a copy of this novel. In the last book of the Six Tudor Queens series, “Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife”, Alison Weir takes her readers on an extraordinary journey to explore who this brave woman was and why she is the one who survived Henry’s last days. However, his last wife, Katharine Parr, is willing to fight for the religious reforms and her stepchildren that she loves dearly. Will she marry the man of her dreams or marry the man who has been married numerous times and has killed two of his wives already? It seems like a no-brainer who she should choose, but the man she married for her third marriage was the man who was married numerous times before simply because he is the notorious King Henry VIII and you do not disobey the king. A woman twice widowed with no children of her own has the opportunity to choose who she will marry next.
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