1. Tudor Dawn
England and Brittany, 1469–1509. As Henry VI and Edward IV struggle for the crown, the young Henry Tudor grows up under guard and then in exile. His uncle Jasper Tudor protects the Lancastrian claim, while Margaret Beaufort builds alliances in England and treats her son’s survival…
2. The King’s Commoner
Henry VIII’s England. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York owes his favoured status to the most volatile monarch that the nation has ever known. In an age when a man can be a royal favourite one day, and consigned to an…
3. Justice for the Cardinal
Henry VIII’s England. Following the unjust death of Cardinal Wolsey, his protégé Thomas Cromwell is determined to take his revenge on those he holds responsible, most of all Queen Anne Boleyn and her uncle Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. But Thomas is obliged to acquire the…
4. An Uneasy Crown
England from 1547 to 1553. In the six year period between 1547 and 1553, Tudor England is juggled through the hands of four separate monarchs. After the infamous reign of Henry VIII ends, his nine year old son Edward VI briefly takes charge, under the dubious…
5. The Queen in Waiting
England during Mary I’s reign. Mary Tudor has claimed her sovereignty. But she remains conscious that her Council had briefly preferred another — her cousin, the Lady Jane Grey — and at the age of thirty-seven, unmarried and childless, she looks fearfully at the natural beauty…
6. The Heart of a King
Elizabethan England. Elizabeth I inherits a kingdom divided by religion and scarred by the reign of Mary I. Determined to rule without surrendering authority to a husband, she relies on a small circle of counsellors while foreign monarchs, English nobles and rival claimants attempt to turn…