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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorLife in a Tudor Palace
Christopher Gidlow · 92 pages
The Tudor Chronicles: 1485-1603
Susan Doran · 415 pages
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
Elizabeth: Apprenticeship
David Starkey · 356 pages
The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
Linda Porter · 452 pages
In this groundbreaking new biography of “Bloody Mary,” Linda Porter brings to life a queen best remembered for burning hundreds of Protestant heretics at the stake, but whose passion, will, and sophistication have for centuries been overlooked. Daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, wife of Philip of Spain, and sister of Edward VI, Mary Tudor was a cultured Renaissance princess. A Lati
The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I
Stephen Alford · 397 pages
A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy her, their plans most fully realized by the Spanish Armada.
The Anne Boleyn Collection: The Real Truth about the Tudors
Claire Ridgway · 260 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'
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,
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Eric Ives · 367 pages
Lady Jane Grey is the queen England rejected and one of the most elusive and tragic characters in English history. Here, Eric Ives, master historian and storyteller presents a compelling new interpretation of Jane and her role in the accession crisis of 1553, with wide-ranging implications for our understanding of the workings of Tudor politics and the exercise of power in early modern England. Pr
The First Elizabeth
Carolly Erickson · 447 pages
In this biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe. With the special skill for which she is acclaimed, Carolly Erickson electrifies the senses as she evokes with total fidelity the brilliant colors of Elizabethan clo
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
Joanna Denny · 384 pages
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Peter Ackroyd · 352 pages
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
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
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
Karen Lindsey · 262 pages
Death And The Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart
Chris Skidmore · 352 pages
Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 a 25-year-old virgin - the most prized catch in Christendom. For the first ten years of her reign, one matter dominated above all others: the question of who the queen was to marry and when she would produce an heir. Elizabeth's life as England's Virgin Queen is one of the most celebrated in history. Christopher Skidmore reveals a very different picture: of a v
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.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Antonia Fraser · 496 pages
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
Leanda de Lisle · 386 pages
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.