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The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new...
3) Tidelands
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2019
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England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different ... Midsummer?s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free...
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The cousins' war volume 3
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Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of 19, she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a new life for herself. Originally published: 2011
8) Philippa gregory 3-book Tudor collection 2: the queen?s fool/ the virgin?s lover/ the other queen
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Harper
Pub. Date
2013
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THE QUEEN?S FOOL A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, depicting the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth, played out against a background of betrayal, conflict and passion. Elizabeth?s bitter struggle to claim the throne she believes is hers by right, and the man she desires almost more than her crown, is watched by her ?fool?: a girl who has been forced to leave her homeland of Spain, as a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. In these...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2013
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THE CONSTANT PRINCESS Tells the story of Henry VIII?s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess raised to be Queen of England and first brought to England to marry Henry?s older brother, Prince Arthur. But when her new husband dies, she must fight for her birthright - and in marrying the now heir to the throne, she must tell the greatest lie? and hold to it. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Made famous by the film adaptation, tells the story of the...
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Plantagenet and Tudor Novels volume 8
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2016
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When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure.� With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined - with Margaret?s younger sister Mary - to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other.�...
11) The white queen
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The cousins' war volume 1
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'The White Queen' tells the tale of one woman's ambitious ascent to royalty during the Wars of the Roses and the unsolved mystery around her sons' imprisonment in the Tower.
12) The red queen
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'The Red Queen' tells the story of the child-bride of Edmund Tudor who uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York to ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England.
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Plantagenet and Tudor Novels volume 9
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The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than through the charms of one of the daughters, Mary Boleyn, at court? But Mary becomes the king?s mistress at a time of change. He desperately needs an heir. When Mary?s sister Anne catches the king?s eye, she won?t agree to be his mistress - only his wife. What happens next is common knowledge - but here...
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Plantagenet and Tudor Novels volume 11
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2015
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Kateryn Parr, a 30-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives - King Henry VIII - commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces: the previous queen lasted 16 months, the one before barely half a year. But Henry adores his new bride a
16) The king's curse
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The riveting story of Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, and was one of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses. Plantagenet, once carried proudly by Margaret like a crown upon her head, is now, at the end of the 15th century, the most dangerous name in England.
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