
A biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, beheaded for playing Henry at his own game - adultery. At seven o'clock on the morning of 13 February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was escorted across the yard...

This is a biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, beheaded for playing Henry at his own game - adultery. 'Lacey Baldwin Smith is one of our finest historians' - Alison Weir. 'A faultless book' - "The spectator". 'Lacey Baldwin Smith has so excellently caught the atmosphere of the...