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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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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...
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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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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
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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.�...
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Plantagenet and Tudor Novels volume 14
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2017
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Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king?s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner?s block, where Jane transformed her father?s greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom. ?Learn you to die,? was the advice Jane...
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