Murder Most Royal

Name: Murder Most Royal
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by Jean Plaidy Book 5 in the Tudor Saga series.

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Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard are cousins whose beauty and family connections bring both women to the attention of Henry VIII. Anne's long struggle to become queen helps overturn the king's first marriage and transforms the religious politics of England, but failure to produce a surviving son and the hostility of powerful enemies leave her dangerously exposed.

A few years after Anne's execution, the much younger Catherine Howard enters the same court and becomes Henry's fifth wife. Her past relationships and the risks of life inside a suspicious royal household prove fatal. The novel links the two women's stories through the Tudor court, showing how favour could raise a woman rapidly while leaving her dependent on the desires and fears of an increasingly absolute king.