Elizabeth Norton: 20 books
by Elizabeth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
The turbulent Tudor Age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it truly like to be a woman during this era?
The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress; of palace intrigue and dramatic politics. But if you were a woman, it was also a time...
by Elizabeth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
A power-hungry and charming courtier. An impressionable and trusting princess. The Tudor court in the wake of Henry VIII’s death had never been more perilous for the young Elizabeth, where rumors had the power to determine her fate
England, late 1547. King Henry VIII Is dead. His fourteen-year-old...
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love
Henry VIII's True Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant, of Henry VIIIs wives. The real Jane was a very different character, demure and submissive yet with a ruthless streak as Anne Boleyn was being tried for treason, Jane was choosing her wedding...
Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
Mistress to Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The earliest known and longest lasting mistress of Henry VIII, Bessie Blount was the kings first love. More beautiful that Anne Boleyn or any of Henrys other wives or concubines, Bessies beauty and other charms ensured that she turned heads, winning a place at court as one of Catherine of Aragons ladies....
by Elizabeth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain’s most famous king because of it. His pursuit of a male heir for his throne led him to cast aside five consecutive wives and bring about the reformation of the Catholic Church, changing the face of British...
The Boleyn Women
The Tudor Femmes Fatals Who Changed English History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century, moving from peasant to princess in only a few generations. The women of the family brought about its advancement, beginning with the heiresses Alice Bracton...
Margaret Beaufort
Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII,...
She Wolves
The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
A history of the "bad girls" of England’s medieval royal dynasties, this book covers the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies—Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France,...
Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride
Henry VIII's Discarded Bride
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
I like her not! was the verdict of Henry VIII on meeting his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, for the first time. Anne could have said something similar on meeting Henry and, having been promised the most handsome prince in Europe, she was destined to be disappointed in the elderly and corpulent king. Henry...
Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession
Henry VIII's Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to sit on the throne of England. From her early days at the imposing Hever Castle in Kent, to the glittering courts of Paris and London, Anne caused a stir wherever she went. Alluring but not beautiful, Annes wit and poise won her numerous...
England's Queens
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England, either as queen regnant or queen consort and the voices of all of them survive through their own writings and those of their contemporaries. The primary role of the queen over the ages was to provide an heir. Catherine of Aragon found this to...
Catherine Parr
Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The sixth wife of Henry VIII was also the most married queen of England, outliving three husbands before finally marrying for love. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught the attention of the elderly Henry VIII.
She was the most reluctant...
Anne Boleyn
In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The complete letters, dispatches and chronicles that tell the real story of Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, caused comment wherever she went. Through the chronicles, letters and dispatches written by both Anne and her contemporaries, it is possible to see her life and thoughts...
Elfrida
The First Crowned Queen of England
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Contrary to popular belief, Anglo- Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar's imperial coronation at Bath in 973. The couple made a love match,...
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