The Tudor Trilogy

The Tudor Trilogy traces the dynasty from its unlikely origins to the establishment of Henry VII’s monarchy. Owen begins with the Welsh courtier Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, whose secret relationship creates the family from which the Tudor claim will emerge. Jasper follows their son Jasper Tudor through defeat, exile and the Wars of the Roses as he protects his nephew Henry and keeps the Lancastrian cause alive. Henry completes the sequence with the victory at Bosworth and the difficult work of turning conquest into a stable reign.

The trilogy is therefore as much about survival and dynastic construction as kingship. Lancastrian collapse, Yorkist rule, exile in Brittany, the Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII’s marriage to Elizabeth of York are experienced through members of the family whose fortunes rise and fall with the civil wars. The novels connect intimate loyalties between parents, brothers and wards to the larger political settlement that created the Tudor monarchy.