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Six Tudor queens volume 2
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English
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Henry VIII is risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy.
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"In this compelling novel of Tudor drama and suspense, acclaimed author Alison Weir brings to life one of England's most scandalous royal love affairs: the romance between the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I and her courtier Lord Robert Dudley. Only twenty-five and newly crowned, Elizabeth vows to rule the country as both queen and king. But her counselors continually press her to form an advantageous marriage and produce an heir. Though none of the suitors...
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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, his amorous gaze lights upon the pretty teenager. Seated near...
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Thorndike Press/Gale
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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"Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, England's King Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. Henry commissions a portrait of twenty-four-year-old Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, and is entranced by the lovely image. But when Anna arrives in England, Henry is bitterly surprised by her appearance and knows he can never love her--so this awkward royal union must somehow be terminated. Will Henry...
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