‘This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction’ THE TIMES’With characteristic verve and stunning period detail, this novel will captivate you and break your heart. Utterly sublime’ TRACY BORMANAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth queen. ‘Conveys the heart-rending pathos of a young woman executed, whose only real crime was her naivete and her desire to be loved… It is a profoundly moving story that lingers long after the last page is turned’ ELIZABETH FREMANTLE’Alison’s sensitively drawn novel will change everyone’s preconceptions’ SUSAN RONALD… A NAIVE YOUNG WOMAN AT THE MERCY OF HER AMBITIOUS FAMILY. At just nineteen, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love. She comes to court. She sings, she dances. She captures the heart of the King. But Henry kno