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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Richly researched and utterly captivating, "The Lady in the Tower" presents the full array of evidence of Anne Boleyn's guilt--or innocence. Only in Weir's capable hands can readers learn the truth about the fate of one of the most influential and important women in English history.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A vivid fictional portrait of the tumultuous early life of Queen Elizabeth I describes her perilous path to the throne of England and the scandal, political intrigues, and religious turmoil she confronted along the way, from the deaths of her parents, Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, to the fanaticism of her sister, Mary I.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Eleanor of Aquitaine, after having spent the past dozen years as consort to King Louis VII of France, meets Henry, the future king of England. After her first marriage is annulled, Eleanor and Henry marry, but that union charged with physical heat, begins a fiery downward sp iral marred by power struggles, betrayals, bitter rivalries.
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Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
No English queen has drawn more ire than the vilified Queen Isabella. A 12-year-old French girl, she married Edward II in 1308 to forge peace between her native and adopted countries. But Edward presferred the company of his male courtiers, and a frustrated Isabella eventually fled -- into the arms of Edward's greatest enemy, Baron Roger Mortimer. Together they raised an army, forced Edward to abdicate (and allegedly had him killed), and ruled...
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