Elizabeth Fremantle
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Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However, obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII, who dispatches Seymour to the Continent. Unable to refuse a royal proposal, Katherine must become Henry's sixth queen . . . and try to navigate the treachery of the court....
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"A marriage. A murder. One of them did it. Which of them will die for it? In the autumn of 1615, scandal rocks the Jacobean court, when a celebrated couple, Robert and Frances Carr, are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances is young, captivating, and from a notorious family. She has been rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a new life for herself. Whatever the price. Robert is one of the richest and most famous...
3) Disobedient
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English
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Artemisia Gentileschi, growing up in a family of all-male painters, dreams of becoming a great artist in 1611 Rome and completes lesson after lesson until a mysterious tutor threatens her honor and virtue and she is put on trial.
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Early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, Lady Catherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey are reeling after the brutal execution of their elder seventeen-year-old sister, Lady Jane Grey. The succession is by no means stable, and neither sister is well suited to a dangerous life at court. Flirtatious Lady Catherine, thought to be the true heir, cannot control her compulsion to love and be loved. Her sister, clever Lady Mary, has a crooked spine and a tiny stature...
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Tudor trilogy volume 3
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English
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"From "a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction" (People), comes the mesmerizing story of Lady Penelope Devereux--the daring young beauty in the Tudor court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnets even while she plotted against Queen Elizabeth. Penelope Devereux arrives at Queen Elizabeth's court where she and her brother, the Earl of Essex, are drawn into the aging Queen's favor. Young and naive, Penelope, though promised elsewhere,...
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T︠s︡entrpoligraf
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2017.
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Russian
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"Early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, Lady Catherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey are reeling after the brutal execution of their elder seventeen-year-old sister, Lady Jane Grey. The succession is by no means stable, and neither sister is well suited to a dangerous life at court. Flirtatious Lady Catherine, thought to be the true heir, cannot control her compulsion to love and be loved. Her sister, clever Lady Mary, has a crooked spine and a tiny stature...
7) Firebrand
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal. Haunted by the fates of his previous wives--two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth--Katherine must wed Henry and rely on...
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Eksmo
Pub. Date
2024.
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Russian
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Dolgozhdannoe prodolzhenie korolevskogo tsikla!Idealʹno dlia liubiteleĭ romanov Khilari Mantel i Filippy Gregori. Ponravitsia vsem, komu po dushe «Tiudory», «Igra prestolov», «Korona».«Sopernitsa korolevy» - tretʹia kniga tsikla Ėlizabet Frimantl o vydaiushchikhsia zhenshchinakh angliĭskoĭ istorii. Ona povestvuet o sudʹbe Penelopy Devero (v zamuzhestve Rich), kotoraia smogla zavoevatʹ polozhenie pri dvore blagodaria sile kharaktera.Dlia...