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  • The King's Secret Matter

  • Written by: Jean Plaidy
  • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
  • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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The King's Secret Matter

Written by: Jean Plaidy
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
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The 12-year marriage of Henry and Katharine has declined from an idyllic union into an uneasy stalemate. The king's love for his aging queen has grown cold, and he is angry with her failure to give him the heir to the throne he desperately wants. When the seductive Anne Boleyn arrives at court, the king is captivated by her dark beauty and bold spirit and becomes obsessed by the desire to possess her. With his chief advisor, Cardinal Wolsey, the king devises a secret plot to declare the marriage with Katharine null and void. But Katharine refuses to surrender to his wishes and fights desperately to retain her title and safeguard her daughter, Mary. The ensuing power struggle is one of the turning points in English history, and these pages capture it in spellbinding detail.
©1990 Eleanor Hibbert (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama." (New York Times)
"Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of characterization, has become one of the country's most widely read novelists." (Sunday Times)
"Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting." (Observer)

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  • 2023-12-22

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I love books by this author everyone is good and pretty historically correct every time

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