A highly detailed history of intricate dynastic political tangles
among England, Scotland, and their European neighbors during the
16th century. English actress, journalist, and historian Perry
transports readers to a far-off time as she acquaints us with Henry
VIII's lesser-known relatives. The author delves deeply into
contemporary sources from an age when royal marriages played a
dominant role in the art of politics. She captures the pageantry of
power politics in a time when nobility competed with lavish
displays of great wealth and conspicuous consumption that in itself
suggested power and prestige among the royal houses of Europe.
Margaret Tudor, Henry's elder sister, was widowed when James IV of
Scotland died attacking the English at Flodden Field, a Scottish
disaster. She later married a Douglas, Lord Angus, an enemy of the
volatile Scottish ruling clans, causing herself much angst while
fleeing danger with her two sons, potential heirs to the English
throne. After a life of turmoil in near-anarchic Scotland, she is
remembered as the grandmother of Mary Smart, Queen of Scots, and
great-grandmother of James VI of Scotland, who became James I of
England. Mary Tudor, Henry's younger sister, married the aged Louis
XII of France, became a widow shortly thereafter, then wed the duke
of Suffolk, producing more pretenders to the throne. Henry's
marriage to Anne Boleyn divided the country as many admired the
devout, rejected Katharine of Aragon. Thankfully, the book includes
a "House of Tudor" chart that will help general readers sort out
the crowded cast of characters who shaped many of the leading
events of the age. Perry's insightful account of the king's sisters
and their times might well provide currently Tudor-infatuated
Hollywood with a good source for future movies and miniseries.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Henry VIII's sisters, neglected by generations of historians,
affected the lives of their contemporaries much more forcefully
than did any of their brother's famous six wives. In The Sisters of
Henry VIII, Maria Perry brings history alive by examining the lives
of these extraordinary women and their influence on Europe in the
Tudor Age. Margaret became queen of Scotland at age thirteen family
members arranged beautiful Mary's betrothal to the aging king of
France when she was twelve. But both women chose their second
husbands for love: Margaret married and divorced twice after
Henry's advancing armies slaughtered her first husband and
kidnapped her children Mary risked execution by proposing to the
handsome duke of Suffolk. ground-breaking in both depth and scope,
Perry's work rescues two remarkable princesses from the shadows of
history and offers a fresh interpretation of a royal family and an
era sure to fascinate readers of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser.
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