We’re living in a Tudor mad world which is great news for fans of this period. Try the following books for tales full of rich period history, drama, intrigue, vibrant characters, politics and romance.
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Description: A sweeping tale of seduction and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, - a rich and dramatic historical about Madge Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.
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Description: The year is 1527. The great portraitist Hans Holbein, who has fled the reformation in Europe, is making his first trip to England under commission to Sir Thomas More.
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Description: The story of Meg Wyatt, pledged forever as the best friend to Anne Boleyn since their childhoods on neighboring manors in Kent. When Anne’s star begins to ascend, of course she takes her best friend Meg along for the ride…
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Description: Elinor defies her mother’s wishes and accepts an invitation to become a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I in London. Elinor is dazzled by the lavishness of the court, but unprepared for the viciousness of the courtiers.
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Description: The tragic, moving, and gripping story of the ascendance and fall of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII– and the best friend she nearly dragged down with her.
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Description: Queen Anne Boleyn chronicles the impact her marriage to Henry VIII had on England before being accused of adultery with several men and sentenced to beheading, while king’s confectioner Lucy Cornwallis witnesses the tragic events that culminate in Anne’s death.
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Description: Thomasine Lodge, a lady-in-waiting to King Henry’s daughter, Princess Mary, becomes the Princess’s confidante–and her eyes and ears–when Henry marries Anne Boleyn, who, distrustful and suspicious of Mary, takes Thomasine into her service where she catches the king’s roving eye.
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Description: A tale inspired by the life of Jane Seymour follows her dedicated service as a Maid of Honor to Catherine of Aragon until a scheming Anne Boleyn throws the court into turmoil, a situation that culminates in Jane’s dangerous relationship with Henry VIII.
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Description: Amid the turbulent, faction-ridden late reign of the fearsome Henry, eager high-spirited Catherine Howard caught the king’s eye – but not before she had been the sensual plaything of at least three other men….
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Description: A novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man–Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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Description: Jane Popyncourt, a real-life member of the royal court of Henry VIII, exposes the darkest corners of Tudor England in this captivating novel.
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Description: A fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, follows her through her youthful marriage to Henry’s older brother, Arthur, her widowhood, her marriage to Henry, and the divorce that led to Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn.(SEE ALL GREGORY BOOKS)
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Description: When she is promised to the elderly, ailing King Louis of France, a heartbroken Mary Tudor accepts her fate, but not before extracting a promise from her brother: When the old king dies, her next marriage shall be solely of her choosing.
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Description: Though her path to the throne was long and paved with treachery, Jane Seymour would win the heart of her king—and heal her own.
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Description: Mary Boleyn is drawn into the treacherous secrets and illicit love affairs of the glittering French court when she becomes the mistress of the French prince François and catches the eye of the powerful English king Henry VIII.
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Description: Life at Henry VIII’s court holds more than artifice for an intelligent observer, and Honor knows how to watch–and when to act.
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Description: Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter’s efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price.
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Description: A diary written by the second wife of King Henry VIII in which she recounts her life as lady-in-waiting to the queen while fending off royal advances until he breaks with Rome, divorces and marries her.
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Description: Miles traces, through the queen’s own voice, Elizabeth’s turbulent years as a princess in Henry VIII’s court, her uneasy status during the brief reigns of her brother Edward and sister Mary and her decades on the throne.
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Description: Anne Boleyn and her younger cousin Catherine Howard face similar fates in their lives at court.
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Description: Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy begins her tales of Henry VIII’s queens with the story of his first wife, the Spanish princess Katharine of Aragon.
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Description: Autumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, to quell his rebellious northern subjects.
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Description: A vivid fictional portrait of the tumultuous early life of Queen Elizabeth I describes her perilous path to the throne of England and the scandal, political intrigues, and religious turmoil she confronted along the way, from the deaths of her parents, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, to the fanaticism of her sister, Mary I.