The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels)

Description

The latest novel from 1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory
features one of the most famous women in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two
sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Jane Grey was queen of England
for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead
king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her
throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray
her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane
transformed her father’s greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom. “Learn you
to die,” was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no
intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in
love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her
sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a
Tudor son. When Katherine’s pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces
imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister’s scaffold. “Farewell,
my sister,” writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful
dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her
own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters
defy their queens, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to
command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless
and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth? Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria; Reprint edition (February 20, 2018)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476758778
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 70
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.36 x 8 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #61,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #47 in Renaissance Historical Fiction (Books) #291 in Historical British & Irish Literature #1,718 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
• #47 in Renaissance Historical Fiction (Books)
• #291 in Historical British & Irish Literature