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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAnne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
Joanna Denny · 384 pages
Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII
Giles Tremlett · 448 pages
Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor
Carolly Erickson · 533 pages
Mary I was the first queen to rule England (1553-58) in her own right. She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England. The daughter of King Henry VIII and the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon, Mary as a child was a pawn in England's bitter rivalry with more powerful nations, and was later regularly offered for marri
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Leanda de Lisle · 386 pages
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Antonia Fraser · 496 pages
Henry VIII: Man and Monarch
Susan Doran · 288 pages
Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics
Sarah Gristwood · 528 pages
“Even their contemporaries felt that the relationship of Elizabeth and Robert transcended the details on practicality. There had to be some explanation for their lifelong fidelity, and those contemporaries put it down to 'synaptia', a hidden conspiracy of the stars, whose power to rule human lives no-one doubted: 'a sympathy of spirits between them, occasioned perhaps by some secret constellation'
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
Linda Porter
Elizabeth the Great
Elizabeth Jenkins · 336 pages
Countless books have been written about Elizabeth I of England, but rarely has Elizabeth the woman been presented with the vividness, authority, and perception which inform this fascinating and important work. Miss Jenkins brings the great queen, her court, and the whole exciting age to which she gave her name brilliantly to life. There was something almost bewitched in Elizabeth, as though she
Winter King
Thomas Penn · 458 pages
It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's crown who through luck, guile and ruthlessness had managed to win the throne and stay on it for sixteen years. Although he built palaces, hosted jousts, gave out lavish presents and sent ambassadors
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Tracy Borman · 464 pages
Reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power, Thomas Cromwell was also a loving husband, father and guardian, a witty and generous host, and a loyal and devoted servant. With new insights into Cromwell's character, his family life and his close relationships with both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, Tracy Borman, joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, ex
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Anna Whitelock · 385 pages
Mary Tudor was the first woman to be crowned queen of England. Her accession, in the summer of 1553, took place against the odds and it was, in many ways, emblematic of her life. Anna Whitelock's assured, impassioned and absorbing debut tells the remarkable story of a woman who was a princess one minute, feted by the courts of Europe, and a disinherited bastard the next.
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love
Elizabeth Norton · 240 pages
The first ever biography of JaneSeymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what hecraved most - a son and heir.First biography to show the real Jane Seymour, she may have been submissive and obedient in front of Henry, but her true personality was far more cutthroat. Huge interest in the wives of Henry VIII, most of his wives are the subject of at least two books,
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
G.J. Meyer · 612 pages
Meyer's fresh storytelling ability breathes new life into the history of the Tudor family and Tudor England's precarious place in world politics, the critical role religion played in government, and the blossoming of English theater and literature.
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
Chris Skidmore · 368 pages
The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
Philippa Jones · 327 pages
Everybody thinks they know the tale of King Henry VIII's wives: divorced, beheaded died; divorced, beheaded, survived. But behind this familiar story, lies a far more complex truth. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's mistresses were dalliances, the playthings of a powerful and handsome man. However, when
Catherine of Aragon
Garrett Mattingly · 384 pages
A biography of the first wife of Henry VIII of England and an evaluation of the controversy surrounding her part in his life.
Catherine de Medici
Leonie Frieda · 464 pages
"Orphaned in infancy, imprisoned in childhood, heiress to an ancient name and vast fortune, Catherine was brought up in the Florentine court and married off, by her uncle the Pope, to Henry, Duke of Orleans, son of King Francis I of France. Aged only fourteen, she suffered cruelly as Henry loved only his beautiful mistress, Diane de Poitiers." "In 1559, when Henry, by then King of France, died hor
The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
Christopher Hibbert · 287 pages
Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
Lytton Strachey · 288 pages
Dramatizes one of the most famous and most baffling romances in history -- between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, the vital, handsome Earl of Essex. It began in May of 1587 when she was 53 and Essex was not yet 20 and continued until 1601.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie · 791 pages
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself