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Katherine Grey

1540–1568

Katherine Grey was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and a potential claimant to the English throne. Her secret marriage to Edward Seymour angered Elizabeth I and led to imprisonment, making her life part of the wider Tudor succession problem.

In Philippa Gregory’s The Last Tudor, Lady Jane Grey is placed on the throne after Edward VI’s death and executed under Mary I; Katherine Grey later makes a secret marriage that Elizabeth I treats as a direct threat.

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The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels in Order

by Philippa Gregory 16 books 4.4

The Plantagenet and Tudor novels form a chronological sequence of connected but independently readable stories about women near the English throne. They move from the Lancastrian court and the Wars of the Roses through the rise of the Tudors, Henry VIII’s marriages, the mid-Tudor religious crisis and the…

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