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Deborah (162 KP) rated Henry: Virtuous Prince in Books

Dec 21, 2018

Interesting, but Starkey tremendous anti-Yorkist bias really shows through here to a great extent.

I had to laugh when he said that letters between Henry Tudor and his mother were more like those between lovers than mother and son!!

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ClareR (5879 KP) rated The Catherine Howard Conspiracy (The Marquess House Trilogy #1) in Books

Apr 13, 2019

This is set in two timelines: modern day and the Tudor Court. Dr Perdita Rivers and her twin sister, Piper, have been left an enormous bequest by their maternal grandmother. Perdita’s grandmother was a renowned Tudor historian, and had cut off all ties with her granddaughters after the death of their mother. So this is a bit of a shock!
The other timeline follows Catherine Howard in the lead up to her marriage to Henry VIII, and those fateful months that followed it.
I really do like historical novels, and the Tudor period has always particularly fascinated me. I loved all of the historical detail (and I know a lot of it is just conjecture, but it’s fun to imagine!), and Perdie’s research was very interesting too. I’d love a library like hers!
I’m very much looking forward to reading the second instalment as the ending was most intriguing!!