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Privy Seal His Last Venture

di Ford Madox Ford

Serie: The Fifth Queen (2)

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The tumultuous relationship between Katharine Howard and England's King Henry VIII was inextricably entwined with the rise to power and eventual fall of Thomas Cromwell, who served as the Lord Privy Seal. In this fictionalized account from Ford Madox Ford, the once-innocent Katharine begins to be swept up in the machinations of Henry VIII's court, causing many unforeseen alliances, betrayals, and complications.

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The second volume of Ford’s Fifth Queen trilogy continues with the author’s revisionist depiction of Katherine Howard as a teenage polymath, an avid student of classical literature. She seems to calmly accept that her exceptional beauty captivates all the men around her and hopes to use this, in combination with her learning and her piety, to restore the old faith in Henry VIII’s realm. That this is a naive quest, implicit in the first volume, is repeatedly made explicit in this, in the mouths of a variety of characters (“You are not made for this world,” one tells her, “you talk too much”). Her inevitable doom is foreshadowed by repeated references to her cousin, Anne Boleyn.
One of those who shakes his head at her guilelessness is Throckmorton, the intriguer, the survivor. He is in every way her antithesis (although he too is in love with her). His means of achieving his aims is the opposite of hers so that even when their goals align, there was no meeting of minds.
The privy seal of the title is Thomas Cromwell; the book ends with his downfall. Interestingly, given that the author’s portrayal of Kat Howard is so contrary to the consensus about her, Ford’s Cromwell corresponds closely to his depiction a century later by Hilary Mantel in her Wolf Hall trilogy.
A character Ford also seems to have had fun recreating is Tom Culpepper, Kat’s cousin and ruination. He is a combative roarer of Falstaffian proportions. One of the most entertaining scenes in the book is his hilarious encounter with a non-too-bright yeoman sent to Calais to prevent Culpepper’s return to England.
This scene is soon contrasted by one of the most affecting in the book, when Katherine insists on visiting the woman she will displace as queen, Anne of Cleves, before she consents to become Henry’s bride.
Overall, the impression I get is that of despairing acceptance of the world that is, a world in which the best are doomed to fall to those who are their intellectual and moral inferiors. By choosing to write a series of historical novels, the author achieves a certain distance, but one suspects he denies that the world has changed since then. ( )
  HenrySt123 | Jul 19, 2021 |
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Classic Literature. Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

The tumultuous relationship between Katharine Howard and England's King Henry VIII was inextricably entwined with the rise to power and eventual fall of Thomas Cromwell, who served as the Lord Privy Seal. In this fictionalized account from Ford Madox Ford, the once-innocent Katharine begins to be swept up in the machinations of Henry VIII's court, causing many unforeseen alliances, betrayals, and complications.

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