In the Shadow of the Crown

Name: In the Shadow of the Crown
Rating: 3.93 (1676 reviews)

by Jean Plaidy Book 6 in the A Queens of England Novel series.

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Princess Mary grows up as the cherished daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, educated for the possibility that she may one day inherit the English throne. Intelligent, devoutly Catholic and conscious of her royal status, she appears secure until her father’s determination to end his marriage transforms the structure of her life.

Henry’s relationship with Anne Boleyn turns Mary from heir presumptive into a daughter whose legitimacy is publicly challenged. Separation from her mother, pressure to acknowledge the new marriage and the birth of Elizabeth make dynastic politics painfully personal. The novel follows Mary through the years in which loyalty to her faith and to Katherine becomes inseparable from resistance to her father.