From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl,Philippa Gregory,comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII and his final queens.
The king will decide who will live and who will die; he has the power of God now.
1539. Henry VIII must take his fourth wife and the dangerous prize is won by Anne of Cleves. A German princess by birth,Anne is to be Henry's pawn in the Protestant alliance against Rome,but the marriage falters from the start. Henry finds nothing to admire in his new queen,setting himself against his advisors and nobles to pay court to young Katherine Howard.
The new queen begins to sense a trap closing around her. And Jane Boleyn,summoned to the inner circle once more by her uncle the Duke of Norfolk,finds a fractious court haunted by the Boleyn legacy of death and deceit.
Nothing is certain in a kingdom ruled by an increasingly tyrannical king.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007190331Number of pages: 528Weight: 360 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 33 mm
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Praise for'The Constant Princess':
'One of Gregory's great strengths as a novelist is her ability to take familiar historical figures and flesh them into living breathing human beings. "The Constant Princess" is a worthy successor to her previous novels about the Tudors and deserves to be a bestseller.'Daily Express
'Gregory's research is impeccable which makes her imaginative fiction all the more convincing.'Daily Mail
'Gregory is great at conjuring a Tudor film-set of gorgeous gowns and golden-plattered dining.'Telegraph
Philippa Gregory
A master of period biographical fiction Philippa Gregory is one of the most popular novelists writing today. Her novels range across historical periods from the early 1400's to the Twentieth Century but she is best known for her portrayals of the women around the Tudor court of Henry VIII,most famously Anne Boleyn in The Other Boleyn Girl.
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