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The Children of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
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Beginning with Henry VIII’s death in 1547, this history follows Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey through the religious and dynastic crises of the Tudor succession. Alison Weir examines their contrasting personalities, their complicated family relationships and the councillors who tried to control the crown. Edward’s Protestant government, Northumberland’s attempt to place Jane on the throne, Mary’s Catholic restoration and Elizabeth’s dangerous years as heir all emerge as parts of one connected story. Rather than treating the period only as a sequence of reigns, the book shows how affection, rivalry, faith and suspicion within Henry’s divided family shaped England between 1547 and 1558.
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Henry VIII1491–1547 Mary I1516–1558 Edward VI1537–1553 Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley1508–1549 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset1506–1552 Lady Jane Grey1537–1554 John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland1504–1553 Lord Guildford Dudley1535–1554 Philip II of Spain1527–1598
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