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Coni
, May 19, 2020
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I find the Tudors fascinating, but I have not done much research on them. I knew the little bit from high school about how Henry VIII had tons of wives and chopped off their heads (not all of them, but that's how I remembered it). I have also watched the movie The Other Boleyn Girl and watched The Tudors. In those tellings, Queen Katherine was always pushed to the side. Going into this book, I thought she was boring, but she was not.
This is my first book by Alison Weir, but I really liked her approach. She researched tons of historical documents, but put it together in a very captivating way. She modernized the language a bit, but it did make it easier to read.
The book was long, but it did cover so many years of Katherine's life. There was so many pages spent on the time between Arthur's death and when she was finally married to Henry where the King would stop paying her servants, but not send her back to Spain so she was stuck. It had to be so frustrating to have so few choices in life. I know I was frustrated by reading it. I did feel like these parts dragged on for too long.
After reading this book, I ended up with a brand new appreciation of Katherine. She stuck to what she believed in and never gave in to whatever was the most popular thing to do at the time. I never found her boring.
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