This version of Katherine Howard’s story is told by one of her close friends, Catherine Tilney. The first person narration makes the title of the book rather misleading since that actually makes it not the confession of Katherine Howard and Henry’s fifth wife actually ends up more of a background c...
The title and back text leads you to believe that the story is about Mary and Philip but all the scenes where Mary is are abou one page totally. The story is told by man who comes with Philip to England.
I picked up The Queen of Subtleties in the book store and was immediately impressed by the opening lines, written in the voice of Anne Boleyn: "Elizabeth, you'll be told lies about me..." (1). Since I'm a firm believer in a book with a good opening, I picked it up and settled down to read it. I thin...
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