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Author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
Courageous, attractive, romantic, intelligent, Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII. Her story, as Carolly Erickson re-creates it, is page-turning drama: from the splendors of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to the gory last years of the outsize King Henry, when heads rolled and England trembled, Catherine bestrode her destiny and survived to marry her true love.
Catherine Parr attracted...
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Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 3
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After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time not for love. The Boleyn Inheritance follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the king?s decision, as they must balance precariously in an already shaky Tudor Court.
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Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 1
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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.
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Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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404 p. ; 24 cm.
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Acting as the "son" her father never had, Gwenhwyfar, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, bows to circumstances to become Arthur's queen--only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2013
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xi, 416 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station.
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Cousins' war volume 2
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Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2022]
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819 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Illuminating the end of the twelfth century and the notorious queen--Eleanor of Aquitaine--who dominated it, this sweeping, suspenseful tale follows Isabelle, a spirited, questing young woman, who defies convention--and her controlling, falconry-obsessedhusband--to lead an extraordinary life"--
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Six Tudor queens volume 2
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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541 pages ; 25 cm.
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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335 pages ; 24 cm.
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In 1761, German Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz marries King George III, and in her new role, she navigates the intricate politics of the court while guarding her heart as she fights for herself, her husband, and for all her new subjects who look to her for guidance and grace.
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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.
13) The white queen
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2009
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In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
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Cousins' war volume 5
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After his victory at Bosworth field, to unify war-torn England, Henry Tudor, now King, must marry Elizabeth of York, princess of the enemy house, who is still in love with Richard III, his slain enemy. Elizabeth must choose between a young man who claims to be her brother and his claim to the throne, and her husband, she is coming to love.
15) Elizabeth I
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Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
p2011
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25 CDs (31 hrs. 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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England's greatest monarch has intrigued the world for centuries. But what was she really like? Her cousin, Lettice Knollys, thinks she knows all too well. Elizabeth's rival for the love of Robert Dudley and mother to the Earl of Essex, the nobleman who challenged Elizabeth's throne, Lettice had been intertwined with Elizabeth since childhood. This is a story of two women of fierce desire, one trying to protect her country, the other trying to regain...
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Anchor Bay (Twentieth Century Fox)
Pub. Date
2017
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2 DVDs (ca. 558 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This eight-episode series sees England ostensibly united by the marriage of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII, but their individual and partisan rift runs deep, and the war that furies between them portends to tear the kingdom apart again.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I When young Catherine of Aragon, proud daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, is sent to England to marry the weak Prince Arthur, she is unprepared for all that awaits her: early widowhood, the challenge of warfare with the invading Scots, and the utimately futile...
18) The last Tudor
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2017.
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"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. 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...
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Six Tudor queens volume 5
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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 4
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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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