A Dangerous Inheritance

Name: A Dangerous Inheritance
Rating: 2.5 (5 reviews)

by Alison Weir

First published 2012

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Two royal women separated by a century are threatened because their blood places them too near the English throne. Katherine Plantagenet seeks the truth about the Princes in the Tower after Richard III’s fall, while Katherine Grey secretly marries under Elizabeth I and is imprisoned for producing a possible heir. Their interwoven stories connect Yorkist mystery with Tudor succession anxiety and show how dynastic value could become a form of captivity.

Both Katherines discover that proximity to the succession can remove ordinary freedom. One investigates a dynastic crime that still threatens living reputations, while the other is punished for marrying and bearing children without royal permission. The parallel stories show how the Tudor state inherited Yorkist anxieties about bloodline and turned them into direct control over the marriages of potential heirs.

Historical Periods

Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE Princes in the Tower1483 CE

Genres

Biographical Fiction Court & Political Fiction Dynastic & Royal Fiction

Historical people

Mary I1516–1558 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk1517–1559 Richard III1452–1485 Edward V1470–1483 Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York1473–disappeared 1483 Katherine Grey1540–1568