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In the Shadow of Queens

by Alison Weir Book 7 in the Six Tudor Queens series.

First published 2021

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4.0(942)

This collection brings together the companion stories written around the Six Tudor Queens novels. Servants, relatives, artists and courtiers observe the marriages of Henry VIII from positions close to power but rarely central to conventional histories. Their viewpoints widen the sequence beyond the six queens, showing how royal desire, religious change and succession politics affected the people who carried messages, guarded secrets and survived the consequences.

Historical Periods

Henrician Reformation1530–1547 CE Edwardian Reformation1547–1553 CE Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE

Genres

Biographical Fiction Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Henry VIII1491–1547 Catherine of Aragon1485–1536 Anne Boleyn1501–1536 Jane Seymour1508–1537 Anne of Cleves1515–1557 Catherine Howard1523–1542 Catherine Parr1512–1548 Mary I1516–1558 Edward VI1537–1553

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