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Historical person
1496–1533
Mary Tudor, Queen of France, was the younger sister of Henry VIII and briefly queen consort of Louis XII of France. Her later marriage to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was politically sensitive and tied her to the early Tudor court.
Mary Tudor, Queen of France also held the offices or ranks of Queen Consort of France. Mary Tudor, Queen of France belonged to the House of Tudor. Mary Tudor, Queen of France was born in Richmond Palace and died in Westhorpe Hall.
Tony Riches’s Mary – Tudor Princess makes Mary the central figure from her upbringing as Henry VIII’s sister through the diplomatic marriage to the ageing Louis XII and her rapid widowhood. Brandon – Tudor Knight tells the same crisis from Charles Brandon’s side, making their unauthorised marriage in France his most dangerous challenge to Henry’s favour. Jean Plaidy’s Mary, Queen of France dramatises Mary’s brief French queenship and determination to marry for love once Louis dies. Rozsa Gaston’s The Queen’s Maid places the young Anne Boleyn in Mary’s 1514 household and uses the royal marriage to introduce her to French court politics. Philippa Gregory’s Three Sisters, Three Queens sets Mary’s choices beside those of Margaret Tudor and Catherine of Aragon, contrasting dynastic duty with the exceptional freedom Mary tries to seize in her second marriage.
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The Brandon Trilogy follows three closely connected lives at the court of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor, the king’s younger sister; Charles Brandon, his intimate companion and later Duke of Suffolk; and Katherine Willoughby, Brandon’s final wife. Across the three novels, private affection repeatedly collides with the demands of…
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The Anne Boleyn Chronicles reconstruct Anne Boleyn’s formative continental years before her emergence at the English court. Beginning in 1513 in Margaret of Austria’s household at Mechelen, the sequence follows Anne through the courts of Louis XII, Claude of France and Francis I, where language, ceremony, patronage and…
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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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The Tudor Saga follows the dynasty from Henry VII’s insecure victory through the marriages of Henry VIII and the reigns of his children. The novels place queens, courtiers and claimants at the centre of religious change, diplomatic marriage and the succession crises that transformed sixteenth-century England.
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