Henry VIII's True Daughter

Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life

Wendy J Dunn

• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781399012256
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Biografías históricas

The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages ofhistory. The life of Catherine – or Katryn as her husband would one day pen her name –Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn and, as the weight of evidence suggests, Henry VIII, isone of those footnotes. As the possible daughter of Henry VIII, the niece of Anne Boleyn and the favourite ofElizabeth I, Catherine's life offers us a unique perspective on the reigns of Henry and hischildren. In this book, Wendy J. Dunn takes these brief details of Catherine's life and turns theminto a rich account of a woman who deserves her story told. Following the faint trailprovided of her life from her earliest years to her death in service to QueenElizabeth, Dunn examines the evidence of Catherine's parentage and views her worldthrough the lens of her relationship with the royal family she served. This book presents an important story of a woman who saw and experienced muchtragedy and political turmoil during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I – all ofwhich prepared her to take on the vital role of one of Elizabeth I closest and most trustedwomen. It also prepared her to become the wife of one of Elizabeth's privy councillors – a manalso trusted and relied on by the queen. Catherine served Elizabeth during the uncertain andchallenging first years of her reign, a time when there was a question mark over whether shewould succeed as queen regnant after the failures of England's first crowned regnant, hersister Mary. Through immense research and placing her in the context of her period, HENRY VIII'STRUE DAUGHTER: CATHERINE CAREY, A TUDOR LIFE draws Catherine out of theshadows of history to take her true place as the daughter of Henry VIII and shows how vitalwomen like Catherine were to Elizabeth and the ultimate victory of her reign.