Articles tagged with: Keeping up with the tudors
Book Review: The Lost Tudor Princess
The little-known matriarch of modern British monarchy, the headstrong niece of King Henry VIII, is the subject of an absorbing new biography
Book Review: The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
Hilary Mantel’s two famous novels have fueled the centuries-old curiosity about King Henry VIII’s notorious minister Thomas Cromwell: was he a saint, Satan, or a civil servant? A magnificent new study attempts to sift fact from fiction
Book Review: Watch the Lady
Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England – and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
Book Review: The Tapestry
Joanna Stafford – niece of an executed man and distant cousin to King Henry VIII – is called to court, where she immediately becomes the focal point of deadly intrigues
Keeping Up with the Tudors: We Seymours
Suzannah Dunn’s new novel takes readers inside the lives and tensions of the Tudor era’s Seymour clan – including the timid, practical daughter who will become Queen of England
Book Review: Tudor Adventurers
In 1553, an audacious expedition set sail from England headed east in search of a passage to China – a young historians debut work tells the story of that expedition in all its high drama
Book Review: The Spanish Armada
In 1588 the greatest war-fleet since the Trojan War was launched against the England of Elizabeth I. A gripping new history tells the familiar story for a new generation
Book Review: Sisters of Treason
Lady Jane Grey was famously Queen of England for less than a fortnight before being executed by Queen Mary I; Elizabeth Fremantle’s new book takes us into the world of Lady Jane’s two sisters, adrift in a royal court that can’t afford to trust them.
Book Review: My Lady Viper
King Henry VIII’s last wife referred to her as “Hell,” and the Court universally despised her coarse ambition – she was Anne Seymour, and she’s the unlikely subject of a nifty new novel
Book Review: Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter
Idealistic young Mary Shelton finds love at the Tudor Court – but it’s not the love her Queen has chosen for her
Book Review: The Spanish Queen
King Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon, takes center stage in a new novel by Tudor historian Carolly Erickson
Book Review: Henry VIII – The Life and Rule of England’s Nero
England’s ‘bluff king Hal’ is put under the microscope in a scathing new biography
Book Review: Tudors
Our reigning master of vigorous popular history takes on the most vigorous, popular English dynasty of them all
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Prince
An exhaustive – and immensely enjoyable – line-by-line examination of Shakespeare’s final play
Book Review: Fatal Rivalry
While Henry VIII was away fighting the French, his kingdom was invaded from the north by James of Scotland. It was defended by thousands of brave soldiers, a handful of ambitious courtiers – and one remarkable woman.
Book Review: Royal Inheritance
Pretty young Audrey has grown up in the Tudor court thinking she’s the daughter of King Henry VIII’s tailor – but what if her real father is the king himself?
Book Review: The White Princess
“The Cousins’ War” – Philippa Gregory’s ongoing novelization of the Wars of the Roses – reaches an epic turning point in her latest book, about the precarious founding of the Tudor dynasty
Keeping Up with the Tudors: Him Again
In the famous jingle ‘divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,’ Katherine Parr comes last – the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that – scholar, regent, and passionate young woman – as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
Keeping Up With The Tudors: Peace, Plenty, Love, Truth, Terror
A debut novel of alternate history spins out one of the most tantalizing hypotheticals of the past: what if Anne Boleyn had managed to give King Henry VIII a healthy male heir? Some of the answers – and some of the resulting mysteries – may surprise you.
Book Review: Roses Have Thorns
A young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself
Book Review: The Creation of Anne Boleyn
She’s an icon, a cautionary tale, a baleful notoriety – she’s Anne Boleyn, who bewitched a king and drove him to remake a world, all for the sake of a dream she could never give him. A fascinating new book looks at the way all the ways history has made and re-made Henry VIII’s most infamous queen
Book Review: The Chalice
An intelligent, sensitive Dominican novice finds herself at the heart of passionate conspiracies in the England of Henry VIII
Book Review: A Dangerous Inheritance
Historian Alison Weir’s latest novel features two young heroines, separated by 80 years but united by their fascination with one of history’s mysteries: the fate of the Princes in the Tower
Book Review: I, Jane
The meek and dutiful Jane Seymour, mother of Henry VIII’s long-sought male heir, takes center stage in a new historical novel about her life and times.
Book Review: The Spymaster’s Daughter
The daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s chief of espionage has a mind of her own, and in addition to being a dutiful wife to Sir Philip Sidney, she has the makings of an intrepid intelligencer.
Divorce Corps
History’s most famous divorce shook the world and changed history, but it took much more than a king snapping his fingers to make it happen – obscure men on fast horses risked their livelihoods and their lives to line up the paperwork.
Now in Paperback: The Last Divine Office
The bishops of Durham Cathedral were also secular princes who could settle legal disputes – and raise armies. A study now out in paperback gives the mighty cathedral and priory the history they deserve.
Book Review: At the Mercy of the Queen
A heartfelt debut novel about an innocent young woman who comes to the court of Henry VIII – except she’s Anne Boleyn’s cousin, so innocence isn’t going to last very long!
Book Review: Her Highness the Traitor
A new novel tells the story of two women who played a very dangerous game for the biggest prize of all: the throne of England
Keeping Up With the Tudors: Lizard on a Rock
He survived years of dangerous exile, won his crown on the battlefield, and founded one of the most famous dynasties in human history – and yet we still haven’t embraced Henry VII. A spirited biography seeks to change that.
Book Review: The Tudor Throne
Two Tudor sisters fight for a throne – and love – in the latest historical fiction from Kensington Books
Book Review: The Queen’s Rival
A novel about the woman who came heart-breakingly close to founding a new Tudor dynasty.
May the Devil Be His Companion
There was talk that Elizabeth I might make her favorite, Robert Dudley, king – if he weren’t already married. When he wife suddenly died, court and country cried foul, and an immortal mystery was born: what really happened to Amy Robsart?
