Kateryn Parr was an amazing woman; in Philippa Gregory's latest book The Taming of the Queen her story is told in a narrative voice from the point of his proposal up until Henry's Death. In the author's note it is also described how Kateryn did live to marry her love Thomas and that she would eventually die trying to give birth to their www.doorway.ru by: 1. Full Review. Antonia Senior, The Times (Book of the Month) "In The Taming of the Queen she returns in triumphant form to the wives of Henry www.doorway.ruy traces the early seeds of feminism in the disputes Kateryn and her Protestant faction www.doorway.ru like a clever, intimate thriller". Full Review. Kateryn Parr was an amazing woman; in Philippa Gregory's latest book The Taming of the Queen her story is told in a narrative voice from the point of his proposal up until Henry's Death. In the author's note it is also described how Kateryn did live to marry her love Thomas and that she would eventually die trying to give birth to their child/5(K).

British Heritage Travel caught up with the author Philippa Gregory in , just after the publication of The Taming of the Queen, the story of Kateryn Parr, the last wife of Henry VIII of England. The "queen of royal fiction" entered the Edinburgh Book Festival in keeping with her title—that is to say, entirely adored by her subjects, many. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Author interviews, book reviews and lively book commentary are found here. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Philippa Gregory is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women's www.doorway.ru of her works have been adapted for the screen including The Other Boleyn www.doorway.ru graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent.

Brief Summary. The Taming of the Queen tells the story of Kateryn Parr from just before she wed Henry VIII, until just after his death. The work is semi-historical, weaving facts with fiction to tell the story of one of the only two of Henry’s six wives to survive him. Philippa Gregory’s The Taming of the Queen is a historical fiction novel published in The fifth book in Gregory’s Tudor Court series, it tells the story of Tudor Queen Kateryn Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife, and how she survives a dangerous husband who killed or cast aside all but one of his previous wives. The Taming of the Queen is the eleventh book in The Plantagenet and Tudor novels. This is the story of King Henry VIII’s last queen, Kateryn Parr. Like all the previous Philippa Gregory’s historical royal books this one too is narrated from the perspective of the main protagonist.