On Wed 04 September at 19:00 we will have a special preview screening followed by an in-person Q&A afterwards with acclaimed author Elizabeth Fremantle.
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas. Katherine has done everything she can to push for a new future based on her radical Protestant beliefs. When an increasingly ailing and paranoid King returns, he turns his fury on the radicals, charging Katherine’s childhood friend with treason and burning her at the stake. Horrified and grieving, but forced to deny it, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
Conspiracy reverberates through the palace. Everyone holds their breath – for the queen to slip up, for Henry to take her head like wives before. With the hope for a future free of tyranny at risk, will Katherine submit to the inevitable for the sake of King and country?
ELIZABETH FREMANTLE is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor set historical novels: Queen's Gambit, adapted for the screen as FIREBRAND starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law; Sisters of Treason; Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower (a Times book of the Year). As E.C. Fremantle she has written two gripping historical thrillers: The Poison Bed (long listed for the Glass Bell Award) and The Honey and the Sting. Her most recent novel is Disobedient (a Times Book of the Year), about the Roman Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. A further novel set in Baroque Rome will be published in 2025. Her short story That Kind of Girl was shortlisted for the prestigious Bridport Prize in 2021. As a journalist she was an editor for British Vogue, Paris Vogue and Elle UK and has contributed to various other publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in London.
