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English
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No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer but someone seeking happiness-and a son. Knowingly or not, he elevated a group of women to extraordinary heights and changed the way a nation was governed.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI.
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Series
Tudor novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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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Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mainly remembered for his six marriages and his self-appointment as the "Supreme Head of the Church of England," Henry VIII was also attractive, educated, and athletic. When Henry Tudor ascended to the English thrown at the age of 17, his reign looked promising. But by the time of his death in 1547, King Henry VIII was characterized as an extremely egotistical, harsh, and insecure king.
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Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1529, London. Jester Will Somers enjoys an enviable position at the court of Henry VIII. As the king's entertainer, chief gossip-monger, spy and loyal adviser, he knows all of the king's secrets - and almost everyone else's within the walls of Greenwich Palace. But when Will discovers the body of Spanish count Don Gonzalo while walking his trusted sidekick Nosewise in the courtyard gardens, and a blackmail note arrives soon after demanding information...
Author
Series
Cousins' war volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the Starz original series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her unique view of King Henry VIII's stratospheric rise to power in Tudor England. Regarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VII's claim to the throne, Margaret Pole, cousin to Elizabeth of York (known as the White Princess) and daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, is married off to...
11) Great Harry
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Language
English
Description
"In this full-scale popular biography of Henry VIII, Carolly Erickson re-creates the extravagant life and times of one of history's most complex and fascinating men." "Based on voluminous records of the period, the story of Henry's life covers his troubled youth, his triumphant early reign, and his agonizing old age." "Against the lively backdrop of the Tudor world, with all its splendors and squalors, Carolly Erickson gives us an unforgettable and...
12) Henry VIII
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth-century English monarch who effected the separation of England from the Church of Rome.
14) Long Meg
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Meg, an innkeeper's daughter, as tall as the tallest man in Westminister, puts on her father's clothes and joins the British army setting out to invade France led by the King himself.
Author
Series
Tudor rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an insolent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower, long accustomed to the sovereign's capricious and malicious whims. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient ... though undeniably fetching. But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thief--she is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the...
18) The Queen's lady
Author
Series
Thornleigh novels volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1527. Marry or serve: for Honor Larke, the choice is clear. Unwilling to perish of boredom as an obedient wife, she leaves the home of her ward, the brilliant Sir Thomas More, to attend Her Majesty, Queen Catherine of Aragon. But life at Henry VIII's court holds more than artifice for an intelligent observer, and Honor knows how to watch--and when to act... Angered by the humiliation heaped upon her mistress as Henry cavorts with Anne Boleyn...
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