King's Fool: A Notorious King, His Six Wives, and the One Man Who Knew All Their Secrets PDF
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“An absorbing picture A Remarkably Intimate Tale of the Intrigue, of King Henry VIII Ruthlessness, and Majesty of and his court.” —BOOKLIST Henry VIII’s Court King’s ool F A Notorious King,His Six Wives,andthe One Man Who Knew All Their Secrets / MARGARET CAMPBELL BARNES NewYorkTimes bestsellingauthor Praise for King’s Fool “…The author presents an absorbing picture of King Henry VIII and his court… Through [Somers’] shrewd and observing eyes the reader gains not only an intimate view of each of the monarch’s six wives but also a remarkably honest and human portrait of Henry.” —Booklist “All should be warned that, despite the title, they will not encounter the traditional fool.” —Chicago Tribune “Using the bright threads of historical fact, Margaret Campbell Barnes, one of the abler practitioners of the costume novel, has woven a regal tapestry of pomp and circumstance.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “For anyone who thinks of Henry VIII as a violent and tempes- tuous king, this novel opens another side. The violence is there, but it is tempered by an almost pitiful tenderness which only those closest to him ever found.” —Free Press (Winnipeg, Canada) “Margaret Campbell Barnes has written a novel in which warmth of feeling and imaginative perception have been skillfully blended with historical research.” —Gazette Montreal Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 1 1/12/09 9:56:42 AM Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 2 1/12/09 9:56:42 AM kings’ fool Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 3 1/12/09 9:56:42 AM Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 4 1/12/09 9:56:42 AM kings’ fool A Notorious King, His Six Wives, and the One Man Who Knew All Their Secrets / Margaret Campbell Barnes Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 5 1/12/09 9:56:48 AM Copyright © 1959, 2009 by Margaret Campbell Barnes Cover and internal design © 2009 by Sourcebooks, Inc. Cover photo © Portrait of Catherine Parr (1512-48), 1545 (coloured engraving) by Master John (fl.1544) (after) Private Collection/ The Stapleton Collection/ The Bridgeman Art Library Nationality / copyright status: English / out of copyright Sourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems—except in the case of brief quotations embodied in crit- ical articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks, Inc. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used ficti- tiously. Apart from well-known historical figures, any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. Published by Sourcebooks Landmark, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. P.O. Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567–4410 (630) 961–3900 Fax: (630) 961–2168 www.sourcebooks.com Originally published in 1959 by Macdonald & Co. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barnes, Margaret Campbell. King’s fool : a notorious king, his six wives, and the one man who knew all their secrets / Margaret Campbell Barnes. p. cm. 1. Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547—Fiction. 2. Courts and court- iers—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Henry VIII, 1509-1547—Fiction. I. Title. PR6003.A72K56 2008 823’.912—dc22 2008038834 Printed and bound in the United States of America. VP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 6 1/12/09 9:56:48 AM Also by Margaret Campbell Barnes Brief Gaudy Hour My Lady of Cleves The Tudor Rose Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 7 1/12/09 9:56:49 AM Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 8 1/12/09 9:56:49 AM In grateful memory of my parents, CHARLES and EMILY WOOD Kings_Fool_FINAL_INT_REV.indd 9 1/12/09 9:56:49 AM
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