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The Last Tudor (Hardcover)
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'How long do I have?' I force a laugh. 'Not long,' he says very
quietly. 'They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be
beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.' Jane Grey was Queen
of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the
deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the
throne ahead of the king's half-sister Mary, who quickly mustered
an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane
refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the
executioner's block. There Jane turned her father's greedy, failed
grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom. 'Learn you
to die' is the advice that Jane gives in a letter to her younger
sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to
enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love. But her lineage makes
her a threat to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and, when
Mary dies, to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow
Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she
does. So when Katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her
pregnancy, she too must go to the Tower. 'Farewell, my sister,'
writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful
dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary finds it easy to keep
secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious
glare. After watching her sisters defy the queen, Mary is aware of
her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne. But she
is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to
risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving
cousin Elizabeth. Praise for Philippa Gregory: 'Meticulously
researched and deeply entertaining, this story of betrayal and
divided loyalties is Gregory on top form' Good Housekeeping
'Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other
living fiction writer...all of her books feature strong, complex
women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated
by men' Sunday Times 'Engrossing' Sunday Express 'Popular
historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and
superbly told' The Times
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Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2017 |
Authors: |
Philippa Gregory
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
528 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4711-3305-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
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LSN: |
1-4711-3305-2 |
Barcode: |
9781471133053 |
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