The rose without a thorn
Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked form her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother's puritanism is not shared by Katherine's free-spirited cousins, with whom she lives. Beautiful and impressionable, Katherine becomes involved in two ill-fated love affairs before her sixteenth birthday. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, she leaves her grandmother's home to become a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. The royal palaces are exciting to a young girl from the county, and Katherine finds that her duies there allow her to be near her handsome cousin, Thomas Culpepper, who she has loved since childhood ..
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