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The Taming of the Queen
Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse Kateryn Parr, a thirty-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 sixteen months, the one before barely half a year. But Henry adores his new bride and Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family, creates a radical study circle at the heart of the court, and rules the kingdom as Regent. But is this enough to keep her safe? A leader of religious reform and the first woman to publish in English, Kateryn stands out as an independent woman with a mind of her own. But she cannot save the Protestants, under threat for their faith and Henry's dangerous gaze turns on her.The traditional church-men and rivals for power accuse her of heresy - the punishment is death by fire and the king's name is on the warrant From an author who has described all of Henry's queens comes a deeply inti-mate portrayal of the last : a woman who longed for passion, power and educa-tion at the court of a medieval killer.
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The White Princess
The White Princess opens as the news of the battle of Bosworth is brought to Princess Elizabeth of York, who will learn not only which rival royal house has triumphed, Tudor or York, but also which suit or she will have to marry - Richard III her lover, Henry Tudor her enemy. A princess from birth, Elizabeth fell in love with Richard III and expected to marry him, though her mother made an arranged betrothal for her with the pretender to the throne - Henry Tudor, When Henry defeats Richard against all odds, Elizabeth has to marry the man who murdered her lover in battle and create a new royal family with him and his ambitious mother, Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen. But, while the new monarchy can win, it cannot, it seems, hold power in an England which remembers the House of York with love. The new king's greatest fear is that somewhere, outside England, a prince from the House of York is waiting to invade and re-claim the throne for the house of York. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth must decide whether to recognize him as her brother and a claimant to the throne, deny him in favor of the husband she is coming to love
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The Kingmaker's Daughter
From the queen of royal fiction comes a gripping 15th-century tale of the daughters of the man known as the ‘Kingmaker. I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother- in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse...' The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the absence of a son and heir, he ruthlessly uses the two girls as pawns but they, in their own right, are thoughtful and powerful actors. Against the backdrop of the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne turns from a delightful child growing up in intimacy and friendship with the family of Richard Duke of York to become ever more fearful and desperate as her father's enemies turn against her, the net closes in and there is, in the end, simply nowhere she can turn, no one she can trust with her life.