Linda Porter
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
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One of Charles I’s more attractive qualities was his affection for his wife and children, whose privileged existences were shattered when the ...Read Review
Tudor Versus Stuarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots
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Linda Porter’s new tour de force covers ground left out of most histories of the Tudor period while not constantly rehashing well-known ...Read Review
Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr
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As Henry VIII’s sixth and last wife, Katherine Parr has often been relegated to a footnote in history, or caricatured as a ...Read Review
The Myth of Bloody Mary
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This fascinating biography of Mary Tudor cuts through centuries of assumption, legend, and demonization to reveal a more even-handed portrait of the first ...Read Review
The First Queen of England: The Myth of “Bloody Mary”
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If any historical figure is due for a reassessment, it’s surely Mary Tudor, characterized alternatively as a bloodthirsty fanatic and as a ...Read Review