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"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weirbrings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragon, Henry's first, devoted, and "true" queen. A princess of Spain, Catalina is only sixteen years old when she sets foot on the shores of England. The youngest...
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Six Tudor queens volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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541 pages ; 25 cm.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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xxii, 392 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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"Historian Alison Weir brings to life the tale of Katherine Swynford, a royal mistress who became a crucial figure in the British royal dynasties. Born in the mid-14th century, Katherine experienced the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the Peasants' Revolt, and crossed paths with many eminent figures, among them her brother-in-law, Geoffrey Chaucer. At age ten, she was appointed to the household of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and fourth...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006
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402 p. : map, geneal. table ; 25 cm.
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A fictional portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the great-niece of Henry VIII, follows her turbulent life against the backdrop of Tudor power politics and religious upheaval, from her youth, to her nine-day reign as Queen of England, to its tragic aftermath.
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The author harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life England's most passionate and destructive royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. For all its political advantages, the marriage has brought Eleanor only increasing unhappiness and daughters instead...
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Six Tudor queens volume 5
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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480 pages cm.
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"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the tragic story of Henry VIII's fifth wife, a nineteen-year-old beauty with a hidden past, in this fifth novel in the sweeping Six Tudor Queens series. In the spring of 1540, Henry VIII, desperate to be rid of his queen, Anna of Kleve, first sets eyes on the enchanting Katheryn Howard. Although the king is now an ailing forty-nine-year-old measuring fifty-four inches around his waist,...
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Six Tudor queens volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
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521 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir brings her Tudor Queens series to a close with the remarkable story of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, who manages to survive him and remarry, only to be thrown into a romantic intrigue that threatens the very throne of England. Having sent his much-beloved but deceitful young wife Katheryn Howard to her beheading, King Henry fixes his lonely eyes on a more mature woman, thirty-year-old, twice-widowed...
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Six Tudor queens volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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498 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. Forty-six, overweight, and suffering from gout, Henry is soundly rejected by some of Europe's most eligible princesses. Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is twenty-four, and has a secret she is desperate to keep hidden. Henry commissions her portrait from his court painter, who depicts her from the most flattering perspective....
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Six Tudor queens volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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559 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010
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xvii, 434 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), geneal. tables ; 25 cm.
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The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England. Acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir draws on myriad sources from the Tudor era to examine, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's final days.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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xxiii, 364 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
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Presents a historical profile of Henry VIII's mistress and the sister of Anne Boleyn, examining her affair with Francis I of France, rise and fall in the Tudor court, and obscure later years after she married for love.
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England's medieval queens volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 533 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.
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"Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. This remarkable recreation of theaction-packed century that saw the murder of Thomas Becket and the signing of the Magna Carta covers the lives and reigns of the first five Plantagenet queens, who ruled England and France throughout...
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England's medieval queens volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (most color), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm.
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The Age of Chivalry describes a period of medieval history dominated by the social, religious, and moral code of knighthood that prized noble deeds, military greatness and the game of courtly love between aristocratic men and women. It was also a period of high drama in English history, which included the toppling of two kings, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the Peasants' Revolt. Feudalism was breaking down, resulting in social and political...
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England's medieval queens volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 556 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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"Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this epic book brings to vivid life five women, including: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as “the common mother of all England”; and Empress Maud, England?s first female ruler, whose...
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