The Sixth Wife. A Novel about Catherine Parr

After the execution in February 1542 of his beloved but unfaithful wife Catherine Howard, Henry VIII turns his attention to the twice-widowed Catherine Parr. However, she is in love with Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen Jane. Upon... learning of his rival, the king sends Seymour abroad, leaving Catherine Parr with no choice but to become Henry VIII's sixth queen.
She tries to be a good wife to him and happily engages in raising his children. Four years after the wedding, Henry dies, leaving the throne of England to the nine-year-old Edward, a puppet in the hands of ambitious courtiers, and Catherine's life changes drastically. 
Thrilled at the chance to marry her first love, she does not realize that Thomas Seymour now sees her as just a step towards the throne, and his real aim is Henry's daughter, the fourteen-year-old Elizabeth... 'The Sixth Wife. A Novel about Catherine Parr' is the final book in the dramatic series dedicated to the wives of King Henry VIII and created by popular author and renowned historian Alison Weir.