Vater and Mutter had no need to remind their children to make their obeisances, for courtesy had been drummed into them since they had been in their cradles. I found Otho very annoying as a character and she starts a relationship with married Otho after Henry dies. Henry requests her portrait from his court painter, who portrays her from the most flattering perspective. Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. I can't get enough of Alison Weir's writing nor of the wives of Henry VIII. I made it about 130/140 pages in and quit. “You are thinking of the pleasures I would have to give up,” he said, making her blush. "Will Billy tell Honey the truth about the mysterious phone calls?").

As the years passed, Anna could not help but wonder what might come of her life, though she did have a loose betrothal to a local prince, but nothing was ever solidified. There is a massive imaginative leap taken which proves the foundation of the book: even if it were true, I found it very hard to believe it could have happened *in this way* given Anna's status, her upbringing, her family expectations and so on. But he does not want a pig in a poke, so he sends his best artist to visit Kleve and produce pictures of Anna and her sister Emily. All the while, Anna harbors a secret from before her marriage that would doom her—like her successor, Katheryn Howard, who was executed. Anna looked at him affectionately; he did love to make a show of his magnificence. In this fourth in the celebrated British historian/novelist's "The Six Tudor Queens" series, Weir chronicles what happens when a desperate Henry VIII, widowed and with a small son, seeks the hand of Anna of Kleve in marriage. I've read all of Alison Weir's biographies and enjoyed her ventures into historical fiction. While I have read some of Alison Weir’s non-fiction, history, in the past, Anna of Kleve is my first foray into her historical fiction and it has been a pleasurable, positive experience. This riveting historical resonates long after the last page is devoured. “I mean, you could surely have a happier life doing something else.”He grinned. He has, by this time, married and for all intents and purposes seems to be happy with his wife. All this splendor was no more than her due, for she had been a great heiress, and had brought Vater rich territories and titles. Or will he divorce her and send her home in disgrace? In this fourth book in her series on the six wives of Henry VIII, she uses literary license right from the beginning when she introduces the reader to Anna of Kleve as a young teenager on the brink of womanhood who is seduced by her cousin, Otho von Wylich.

Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is twenty-four, and has a secret she is desperate to keep hidden. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. What follows is the fascinating story of an awkward royal union that somehow had to be terminated.

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