The Rose Without a Thorn (37 page)

Copyright © 1993 by Mark Hamilton as Literary Executor for the Estate of the Late E.A.B. Hibbert

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Originally published in Great Britain by Robert Hale, London, in 1993.
Subsequently published in the United States in hardcover by
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, News York, in 1994.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993
The rose without a thorn / Jean Plaidy.
1. Catharine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII,
King of England, d. 1542—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—
Henry VIII, 1509–1547—Fiction. 3. Queens—Fiction I. Title.
          PR6015.I3 R67 2003
823′.914—dc21           2002031951

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