{"product_id":"the-mysterious-death-of-katherine-parr-what-really-happened-to-henry-viiis-last-queen-9781399054447","title":"The Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr: What Really Happened to Henry VIII's Last Queen?","description":"What killed Katherine Parr?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was the ultimate Tudor survivor, the queen who managed to outwit and outlive Henry VIII. Yet just over eighteen months after his passing, Katherine Parr was dead. She had been one of the most powerful people in the country, even ruling England for her royal husband, yet she had died hundreds of miles from court and been quickly buried in a tiny chapel with few royal trappings. Her grave was lost for centuries only for her corpse to be mutilated after it was rediscovered during a tea party. The death of Katherine Parr is one of the strangest of any royals - and one of the most mysterious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final days of Henry VIII's last queen included a faithless husband and rumors of a royal affair while the weeks after her funeral swirled with whispers of poison and murder. \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr\u003c\/i\u003e dives into the calamitous and tumultuous events leading up to the last hours of a once powerful queen and the bizarre happenings that followed her passing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the elaborate embalming of her body, that left it in a state of perfect preservation for almost three centuries despite a burial just yards from her place of death, to the still unexplained disappearance, without trace, of her baby, the many questions surrounding the death of Queen Katherine are examined in a new light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis brand new book from royal author and historian June Woolerton brings together, for the first time, all the known accounts of the strange rediscovery of Katherine's tomb and the even odder decision to leave it open to the elements and graverobbers for decades to ask - how did Katherine Parr really die?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pen and Sword History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399054447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224","brand":"June Woolerton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43896754307253,"sku":"9781399054447","price":29.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a78f53e3-953a-42e7-a5db-8aa99f8caf58.jpg?v=1712632261","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-mysterious-death-of-katherine-parr-what-really-happened-to-henry-viiis-last-queen-9781399054447","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}