sentences:  The novel covers the life of Catherine as Queen, and her fearful feeling of being replaced in the King's eyes.Though the novel conveys Catherine's life, several other characters' lives are foreshadowed as well.Catherine's family play a key role including her sister Anne Parr Herbert, her stepdaughter Elizabeth, niece Jane Grey, doomed friend Anne Askew, rivals Thomas Wriothesley, Stephen Gardiner, Henry Howard, Anne Stanhope, Mary Howard Fitzroy the Dowager Duchess of Richmond and former romantic interest Thomas Seymour.