Jean Plaidy
The Thistle and the Rose
Plaidy’s eighth Tudor novel vividly reconstructs the dramatic life of Margaret Tudor, from the time of her early marriage to…
The Sixth Wife
Plaidy’s retelling of the story of Katharine Parr is masterly. Those who know little more of Katharine than that she…
Uneasy Lies The Head
1486. The Wars of the Roses are over. The Lancastrian King Henry VII has married the Yorkist princess Elizabeth and…
Queen of the Realm
This is a fictionalized account of King Henry VIII’s daughter, Elizabeth I. Jean Plaidy, the queen of royalty novels in…
In the Shadow of the Crown
It’s nice to have books by the late lamented queen of women in history (she covered everyone who was anyone…
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