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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 3,451 ratings — published 2007
The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I (Tudor Rose, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,019 ratings — published 2024
Her Highness, the Traitor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 2,293 ratings — published 2012
Mary, Bloody Mary (Young Royals, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 8,242 ratings — published 1999
In the Shadow of the Crown (Queens of England, #6)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,631 ratings — published 1989
Thomas Cranmer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 313 ratings — published 1996
The Lady of Misrule (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.17 — 661 ratings — published 2015
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I (The History of England, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 3,848 ratings — published 2012
The Queen's Fool (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)
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avg rating 3.89 — 101,977 ratings — published 2003
The King's Daughter (Thornleigh, #2)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,153 ratings — published 1995
The Lady Elizabeth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 29,001 ratings — published 2008
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 15,672 ratings — published 1996
Tudor Queens of England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 756 ratings — published 2009
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,653 ratings — published 2010
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,329 ratings — published 2009
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 242,399 ratings — published 2009
Edward VI: The Lost King of England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,352 ratings — published 2007
The Queen's Sorrow (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.84 — 840 ratings — published 2008
The Spanish Bridegroom (Tudor Saga, #10)
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avg rating 3.81 — 855 ratings — published 1954
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 9,234 ratings — published 2010
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 15,018 ratings — published 2001
Hang the Moon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 86,565 ratings — published 2023
The Faithful Crown: Tudor Queen Mary I’s Story Of Love And Loss (Queens of the Tudor Crown Book 6)
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avg rating 4.26 — 103 ratings — published
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 12,286 ratings — published 2003
The Warrior Queens (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,831 ratings — published 1988
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 74,063 ratings — published 1992
The Historical Diaries : An inside look into Mary Tudor & Anne Boleyn (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.20 — 5 ratings — published
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,669 ratings — published 2023
The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 127,746 ratings — published 1881
Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,262 ratings — published 1978
The Lady's Ambition (Royal Court #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 994 ratings — published
The First Elizabeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,997 ratings — published 1983
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,776 ratings — published 2016
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,688 ratings — published 2004
The Testimony of Alys Twist (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.83 — 265 ratings — published 2020
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,114 ratings — published 2004
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 10,297 ratings — published 1999
Beware, Princess Elizabeth (Young Royals, #2)
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avg rating 3.90 — 5,385 ratings — published 2001
By Royal Decree (Secrets of the Tudor Court, #3)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,132 ratings — published 2010
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 14,649 ratings — published 2009
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 19,384 ratings — published 1992
Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6)
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avg rating 4.44 — 20,630 ratings — published 2014
Tudor: The Family Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,174 ratings — published 2013
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,005 ratings — published 2016
Four Queens and a Countess: Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane Grey and Bess of Hardwick: The Struggle for the Crown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 68 ratings — published
The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings and Queens of England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 153 ratings — published 1991
Sisters of Treason (The Tudor Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,872 ratings — published 2014
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,838 ratings — published 2009
The Tudor Treasury (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 129 ratings — published 2014
Mary Tudor and The Lost Kingdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2014
“Still under pressure to do more to punish Jane, Mary decided that justice must be seen to have taken its course. She had therefore resolved that Jane, together with her husband and his four brothers, must be 'tried and sentenced to receive capital punishment for the crimes they have committed'. It is clear that Mary had no wish to see her young cousin die, and the trial may therefore have been intended as no more than a formality, after which Jane could resume her imprisonment. After all, it was a queen's prerogative to show mercy, and it was one that Mary intended to use.
It is unclear precisely when Jane was informed that she was to face this most harrowing ordeal, or how she reacted. After all, Mary had indicated that she would be given her life, and in time her liberty, thus the thought of standing trial, though not wholly unexpected, may still have come as something of a shock. As Jane contemplated the chilling prospect of her trial and what lay ahead, she would have been all to aware that in the past she had caused Mary so much humiliation and annoyance. But Mary had a kind heart and had refused the advice of her Councillors, several of whom had urged her to take Jane's life in order to secure her own safety. As Jane now faced a perilous trial, her only hope of survival lay in Mary's previous inclination to clemency. Nevertheless, she was well aware that many of those who stood trial did not survive the consequences. The stage had been set.”
― Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
It is unclear precisely when Jane was informed that she was to face this most harrowing ordeal, or how she reacted. After all, Mary had indicated that she would be given her life, and in time her liberty, thus the thought of standing trial, though not wholly unexpected, may still have come as something of a shock. As Jane contemplated the chilling prospect of her trial and what lay ahead, she would have been all to aware that in the past she had caused Mary so much humiliation and annoyance. But Mary had a kind heart and had refused the advice of her Councillors, several of whom had urged her to take Jane's life in order to secure her own safety. As Jane now faced a perilous trial, her only hope of survival lay in Mary's previous inclination to clemency. Nevertheless, she was well aware that many of those who stood trial did not survive the consequences. The stage had been set.”
― Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
“Mary was certainly sympathetic to Jane's situation, and though she soon removed from the Tower to Richmond Palace without seeing her cousin, Jane was not forgotten. By 13 August it seems clear that Mary had received Jane's letter, and that she had accepted her version of events. During their audience with her that day, the Imperial ambassadors reported that thought the Queen made it clear that 'she had not pardoned anybody yet', and there were many who whispered in the Queen's ear that 'Jane of Suffolk deserved death according to English law', Mary, conscious of their familial bonds and Jane's tender age, could not bring herself to execute her cousin. It was evident that Mary believed in Jane's innocence, for in words that almost echoed those in Jane's letter, the ambassadors informed their master that Jane knew nothing of the plans in which she had become helplessly entangled, 'nor was she ever a party nor did she ever give her consent to the [Duke of Northumberland]'s intrigues and plots'. This seems to indicate that Mary had indeed received Jane's account, and she was firm in her decision to be merciful. The Queen's conscience, the ambassadors continued, 'would not permit her to have her put to death', despite the fact that she had been warned by the use of an example from Roman history that it would be better to put Jane to death, 'because of the scandal and danger that might have followed'. Jane's life, it seemed, was safe.”
― Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
― Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
