Katherine Parr: More Than the “Survivor”

Dismissed for many years as simply the “survivor” among the predominately  unfortunate six wives of Henry VIII, Katherine Parr was reimagined as a matronly nursemaid who kept the ailing king comfortable in his final years, fading loyally into the background. Tudor and Shakespeare scholar Carol Ann Lloyd-Stanger draws on the latest scholarship to provide a fuller portrait of this complex woman who caught the eye of an infamous king and kept his favor in a volatile and dangerous court.