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Whilst the young King Henry VIII basks in the pageants and games of his glittering court, his doting queen's health and fortunes fade. Henry's affection for his older wife soon strays, and the neglected Katherine decides to use her power as Queen to dangerous foreign advantage. Overseas battles play on Henry's volatile temper, and his defeat in France has changed the good-natured boy Katherine loved into an infamously callous ruler. With no legitimate...
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Queens of England volume 6
Publisher
Three Rivers
Pub. Date
c1988.
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English
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As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother. But her father's ill-fated love for Anne Boleyn would shatter Mary's life forever. The father who had once adored her was now intent on having a male heir...
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Tudor queens volume 11
Publisher
Three Rivers
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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Princess Mary Rose is the youngest sister of Henry VIII, and one of the few people whom he adores unconditionally. Known throughout Europe for her charm and good looks, Mary is the golden child of the Tudor family and is granted her every wish. Except when it comes to marriage. Henry VIII, locked in a political showdown with France, decides to offer up his pampered baby sister to secure peace between the two mighty kingdoms. Innocent, teenage Mary...
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Queens of England volume 1
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
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Henriette Maria, wife of Charles I-the English king who lost his head, describes the story of her marriage and her husband's downfall.
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[Lucrezia Borgia series] volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1976.
Language
English
Description
Some said she was an elegant seductress. Others swore she was an incestuous murderess. It didn't matter what they called her. She was the most dangerous and sought-after woman in all of Rome. She was Lucrezia Borgia. Born into Rome's notorious Borgia family, young Lucrezia led a life colored by violence and betrayal. Now, married for the second time at just eighteen, she hopes for happiness with her handsome husband, Alfonso. But faced with brutal...
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Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"The daughter of Henry IV of France, Princess Henrietta Maria, becomes a pawn in a political strategy to stabilize relations between two countries when her father marries her to Charles I of England. Sent abroad, she finds herself living in a Protestant country that views her own faith--Catholicism?with deep suspicion"--Publisher description.
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Queens of England volume 11
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English
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From the pen of legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes an unforgettable true story of royalty, passion, and innocence lost. Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother's puritanism is not shared by Katherine's free-spirited cousins, with whom she lives. Beautiful and impressionable,...
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Plantagenet saga volume 14
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1983.
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English
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Describes the intrigues and romances surrounding the reigns of Edward IV and his brother Richard, the last of the Plantagenet kings.
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Queens of England volume 10
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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A fictional portrait of Mary, the eldest daughter of the Catholic Duke of York, describes her politically advantageous marriage to her Protestant first cousin, William, the Prince of Orange, the rise of her father to the throne after the death of Charles II, and the choice Mary must make between her father and her husband in the midst of palace intrigue.
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Queens of England volume 2
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
With her perilous path of accession to the throne behind her, Elizabeth the First, the cool-headed young British monarch, must restrain her passion for the dashing courtier Robert Dudley or risk her beloved country's welfare.
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Queens of England volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
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Bewitching King Henry VIII into making her his bride, the strong-willed and passionate Anne Boleyn becomes the tragically doomed queen who fails to produce a son for the king but whose daughter, Elizabeth, becomes one of the greatest rulers of all time.
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Tudor queens volume 7
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Henry VIII's fifth wife, Katherine Howard, was both foolish and unfaithful, and she paid for it with her life. Henry vowed that his sixth wife would be different, and she was. Katherine Parr was twice widowed and thirty-one years old. A thoughtful, well-read lady, she was known at court for her unblemished reputation and her kind heart. She had hoped to marry for love and had set her heart on Thomas Seymour, the dashing brother of Henry's third queen....
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Queens of England novel volume 9
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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"Charles II is restored to the English throne, and his court is lively and even scandalous. The country is eager for succession to be clear and certain: The next king will be the son of Charles II and his queen, Catherine of Braganza. Yet Catherine, daughter of the king of Portugal and a Catholic, has never been popular with the English people. She is also having great difficulty conceiving an heir, even as many of Charles's well-known mistresses...
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Queens of England volume 3
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1985].
Language
English
Description
An historical fiction about the life of Queen Victoria, the daughter of a prince who grew up in genteel poverty; and at the age of eighteen, was crowned Queen of England, a position she held for sixty-four years.
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Queens of England volume 8
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Offers a fictionalized account of Anne Neville, daughter of the "kingmaker," the Earl of Warwick, who became a pawn of court intrigues and, eventually, Queen through her marriage to Richard III.
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Queens of England volume 7
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Katherine of Valois was born a princess, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. But by the time Katherine was old enough to know him, her father had come to be called "Charles the Mad," given to unpredictable fits of insanity. The young princess lived a secluded life, awaiting her father's sane moments and suffering through the mad ones, as her mother took up with her uncle and their futures became more and more uncertain. Katherine's fortunes...
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Queens of England volume 5
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
An historical fiction about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a queen consort of both France and England during the twelfth century and mother of Richard the Lionhearted.
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