Catherine Parr follows the sixth wife of Henry VIII from her earlier marriages to her role as queen, regent and stepmother within the Tudor household. It examines her education, religious interests and efforts to maintain relationships among Henry’s three children.
The biography gives particular attention to Parr’s published devotional writing and the conservative court reaction that nearly led to her arrest. It concludes with her marriage to Thomas Seymour, the beginning of Edward VI’s reign and her death after childbirth, placing her life within the unsettled politics of the Reformation.
