The Fifth Queen - Ford Madox Ford

The Fifth Queen

By Ford Madox Ford

  • Release Date: 1963-01-01
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
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he Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. The Fifth Queen trilogy has an omniscient narrator. Katharine Howard is introduced in the first book as a devout Roman Catholic, impoverished, young noblewoman escorted by her fiery cousin Thomas Culpeper. By accident, she comes to the attention of the king, in a minor way at first, is helped to a position as a lady in waiting for the then bastard Lady Mary, Henry's eldest daughter, by her old Latin tutor Nicholas Udal. Udal is a spy for Thomas Cromwell, the Lord Privy Seal.

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