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YOUNG AND DAMNED AND FAIR - GARETH RUSSELL KART...

During one of the hottest summers on record the court of Henry VIII is embroiled  once again 
in political scandal. The King's marriage to Anne of Cleves has failed  his closest adviser
Thomas Cromwell is to be executed for treason and  in the countryside  an aristocratic teenager
named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly irascible 
unpredictable monarch. Her story is both a very dark fairy tale and a gripping thriller. Born
into nobility and married into the royal family  Catherine was attended every waking hour by
servants and companions. Secrets were impossible to keep. Based on his research into
Catherine's household  Gareth Russell's history unfurls as if in real time to explain how the
queen's career ended with one of the great scandals of Henry VIII's reign. More than a
traditional biography  this is a very human tale of some terrible decisions made by a young
woman  and of complex individuals attempting to survive in a dangerous hothouse where the odds
were stacked against them. By illuminating Catherine's entwined upstairs-downstairs worlds and
bringing the reader into her daily milieu  the author retells her story in an exciting and
engaging way that has surprisingly modern resonances. Young and Damned and Fair is a riveting
account of Catherine Howard's tragic marriage to one of history's most powerful rulers. It is a
grand tale of the Henrician court in its twilight  a glittering but pernicious sunset during
which the king's unstable behaviour and his courtiers' labyrinthine deceptions proved fatal to
many  not just to Catherine Howard.

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