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The Story of the Tudor Queens
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Roland Hui
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Ten remarkable women. One remarkable era.
In the Tudor period, 1485 to 1603, a host of fascinating women sat on the English throne. The dramatic events of their lives are told in The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens.
The Turbulent Crown begins with the story of Elizabeth of York, who survived conspiracy and dishonor to become the first Tudor queen, bringing peace and order to England after years of civil war. From there, the listener is taken through the parade of Henry VIII's six wives - two of whom, Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard, would lose their heads against a backdrop of intrigue and scandal.
The Turbulent Crown continues with the tragedy of Lady Jane Grey, the teenager who ruled for nine days until overthrown by her cousin Mary Tudor. But Mary's reign, which began in triumph, ended in disaster, leading to the emergence of her sister, Elizabeth I, as the greatest of her family and of England's monarchs.
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Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and treachery - set amidst the splendor, pageantry, squalor, and intrigue of 16th-century Europe. The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable blend of triumph, humiliation, heartbreak, and devotion - and Ms. Erickson recounts it all against the turbulent background of European politics, war, and religious strife of the mid-1500s.
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A good history
- De A. Barrios en 05-21-15
De: Carolly Erickson
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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival
- De: Kate Williams
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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This is the story of two women struggling for supremacy in a man's world, when no one thought a woman could govern. They both had to negotiate with men - those who wanted their power and those who wanted their bodies - who were determined to best them. In their worlds, female friendship and alliances were unheard of, but for many years theirs was the only friendship that endured. They were as fascinated by each other as lovers; until they became enemies. Enemies so angry and broken that one of them had to die, and so Elizabeth ordered the execution of Mary.
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Doe Eyed Mary Stuart
- De Missee en 02-28-19
De: Kate Williams
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Henry VIII
- De: Abigail Archer
- Narrado por: Sarah Nichols
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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Henry VIII ruled England from 1509 to 1547. As a young man, he was fond of sports and hunting and was said to be uncommonly handsome. Standing more than six feet tall, he loomed large in the lives and minds of his subjects as he navigated his country through the tricky diplomatic and military hazards of the 16th century.
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WASTE OF TIME
- De The Louligan en 09-04-20
De: Abigail Archer
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Young and Damned and Fair
- The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
- De: Mr. Gareth Russell
- Narrado por: Jenny Funnell
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political tension and whose terrible errors in judgment quickly led her to the executioner's block.
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Magnifent scholarly work
- De Linda Erlich en 08-08-17
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Crown of Blood
- The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- De: Nicola Tallis
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the heartbreaking words of a 17-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold February morning in 1554. Minutes later, her head was struck from her body with a single stroke of a heavy ax. Her death for high treason sent shock waves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to a crown that the ax could fall at any time.
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Brilliantly Compelling
- De J.Brock en 11-26-19
De: Nicola Tallis
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Mary Queen of Scots
- The True Life of Mary Stuart
- De: John Guy
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
- Duración: 25 h y 8 m
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In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady - achieving her ends through feminine wiles - and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.
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Horrible narration - don’t purchase
- De ballymerrigan en 12-27-18
De: John Guy
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Mary Queen of Scots
- De: Antonia Fraser
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 25 h y 3 m
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Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape, and even murder. Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.
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Shockingly disingenuous.
- De rainjade en 08-14-18
De: Antonia Fraser
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Daughters of the Winter Queen
- Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia, and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- De: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrado por: Laura Kirman
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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Young Elizabeth Stuart was thrust into a life of wealth and splendor when her godmother, Queen Elizabeth I, died and her father, James I, ascended to the illustrious throne of England. At 16 she was married to a dashing German count far below her rank, with the understanding that James would help her husband achieve the crown of Bohemia. Her father's terrible betrayal of this promise would ruin "the Winter Queen", as Elizabeth would forever be known, imperil the lives of those she loved, and launch a war that would last for 30 years.
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Misnamed but Wonderful
- De Anonymous User en 05-16-18
De: Nancy Goldstone
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Elizabeth and Mary
- Cousins, Rivals, Queens
- De: Jane Dunn
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 19 h y 47 m
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In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality), and divinely ordained kingship.
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Fantastic book
- De Catharina en 05-09-04
De: Jane Dunn
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The Rival Queens
- Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
- De: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for 30 years. Her youngest daughter, Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control.
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Definitely not a dull bio!
- De Nella en 07-04-15
De: Nancy Goldstone
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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
- The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted with him as companions and confidants, servants and ministers, and occasionally as rivals - many of whom have been underplayed in previous biographies.
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Exceptional.
- De bigdjunta en 08-02-19
De: Tracy Borman
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Peter the Great
- His Life and World
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 43 h y 38 m
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This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable curiosity, everywhere looking, asking, tinkering, and learning, fired by Western ideas.
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- De BrendaLouQuilts en 12-30-11
De: Robert K. Massie
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Thomas Cromwell
- The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
- De: Tracy Borman
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As Henry VIII's right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation, secured Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of Anne Boleyn, and upon his arrest, was accused of trying to usurp the King himself. But here Tracy Borman reveals a different side of one of the most notorious figures in history.
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- De horoscopy en 02-18-15
De: Tracy Borman
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Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice her age, she would learn the skills of statecraft that would enable her to survive his early death, and to construct a powerful position in her adopted country of Scotland as she dealt with domestic issues as well as navigating international relations with England and France.
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall. But here Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence and created a richly researched and detailed portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history.
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Great book, bad narration.
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A powerful ruler, an alluring young woman, a scandal that would rock the nation: Anne Boleyn’s life story sounds more like a juicy TV docu-drama than a chapter of English history. Although she is not of noble birth or even especially beautiful, Anne Boleyn manages to rise to the very pinnacle of the English aristocracy. Renowned for her extraordinarily vivid recreations of historical events, Carolly Erickson brings out the full fascinating story of the enigmatic Anne Boleyn.
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Just OK for me.
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Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord.
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Short version of same old story
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Elizabeth was not just Queen, she was ruler. In an age of male supremacy she, by sheer force of character, became not only the unchallenged leader of the English but also the first leader of an empire upon which the sun never set. Erickson’s biography tells the truth about this extraordinary woman and profiles some amazing people - their personalities and culture.
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Poorly narrated
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Margaret Tudor, the elder sister of her more famous brother Henry VIII, is the single most important Tudor figure of this era that historians have consistently overlooked. Married at thirteen to the charismatic James IV of Scotland, a man more than twice her age, she would learn the skills of statecraft that would enable her to survive his early death, and to construct a powerful position in her adopted country of Scotland as she dealt with domestic issues as well as navigating international relations with England and France.
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Great book, bad narration.
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Just OK for me.
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Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord.
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Short version of same old story
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Somewhat Spoiled by Narration
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Should be called, The English and their politics
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He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. He was Edward II, and this book tells his story. Kathryn Warner strips away the myths which have been created about him over the centuries, and provides a far more accurate and vivid picture of him than has previously been seen.
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Not bad, but most definitely biased
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The King's Pleasure
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of the legendary king Henry VIII and his dramatic and violent reign in this extraordinary historical novel. Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his rule, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the Pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others.
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Love this author
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Historian and New York Times best-selling author Alison Weir is acclaimed for her absorbing works about the infamous House of York and House of Tudor lines. In A Dangerous Inheritance, Weir uses her wealth of knowledge to craft a compelling novel about two women, living 70 years apart, who are linked through the mysterious disappearance of King Richard III's nephews, Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury - also known as the Princes in the Tower.
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John Gaunt was the son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV, and the sire of all those Tudors. He has had pretty bad press: supposed usurper of Richard II’s crown and the focus of hatred in the Peasants’ Revolt, as they torched his home, the Savoy Palace. Helen Carr paints a complex portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, and patronized the arts.
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The Tudor dynasty died out because there was no heir of Elizabeth I's body to succeed her. Henry VIII, despite his six marriages, had produced no legitimate son who would live into old age. Three of the reigning Tudors (Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I) died without heirs apparent, the most tragic case being that of Mary Tudor, who went through two recorded cases of phantom pregnancy. If it were not for physical frailty and the lack of reproductive health among the Tudors, the course of history might have been different.
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Our capital city has always been a thriving and colorful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchanging gossip and doing business. Abandoned by the Romans, rebuilt by the Saxons, occupied by the Vikings and reconstructed by the Normans, London would become the largest trade and financial center, dominating the world in later centuries. London has always been a brilliant, vibrant, and eclectic place.
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The Lady Elizabeth
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Best-selling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England's most intriguing and powerful queen. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time - whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.
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An unbelievably extraordinary tale about a girl!
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Henry VIII: King and Court
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This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court - the most spectacular court ever seen in England - and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. An entertaining narrative packed with colourful description and a wealth of anecdotal evidence, but also a comprehensive analytical study of the development of both monarch and court during a crucial period in English history.
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A concise focus with tremendous detail
- De kwdayboise (Kim Day) en 05-24-17
De: Alison Weir
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- De: John Wiswell
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Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she's found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warmhearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human
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Weird, but good
- De Kris Rudin en 12-08-24
De: John Wiswell
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- Cobra021498
- 05-30-23
Lots of information
The narrator does talk to slow so I listened on 1.2 & it was perfect. Lots of interesting information. I enjoyed it.
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- Judy
- 05-11-21
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This is an interesting distillation of the history of the Tudor Queens. Much of it will be familiar to most people, but there is a considerable amount of background information on some of the lesser known wives of Henry VIII. Anne of Cleves and Catherine Parr, for example, generally get short shrift in favour of the more spectacular of Henry's wives, such as Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Author Hui delves into the background of the parade of many of Henry's women, wives and otherwise.
Lady Jane Grey's sad tale is generally wrapped in misinformation, thanks to movie makers who never let facts get in the way of a good story. Author Hui clarifies much of this Hollywood fiction and gives us a look at the unfortunate teenager who found herself caught in the political crosshairs of palace intrigue.
Elizabeth's half sister Mary, who eventually earned the well-deserved moniker of "Bloody Mary", receives surprisingly gentle treatment. Her reign of bloody terror is lightly skimmed over while her religious convictions and principles of governance are examined in some detail. Unfortunately, Mary seems not to have noticed that her devotion to God was in direct contrast to her butchery of non-compliant subjects.
Narration is OK, except for the odd mispronunciation that rattles the ear, e.g. "fur-oar-ee" for furore. Makes me wonder how many words slipped completely past me because Dixon didn't check the correct pronunciation beforehand.
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- michaelforrest
- 04-20-23
Interesting
A very informative, interesting and at times shocking account of the Tudor Queens. Great narration.
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- Amber
- 05-05-20
Stuck with it; Couldn't Stop Listening!
A great example of how narration can elevate a story! This is an expertly-researched book that, frankly, I would have skimmed over in the library or bookstore. I'm so glad I chose to give it a shot in audio-version; the story is so fascinating and so well-performed that it becomes a treat to listen to. If you're a fan of history, please don't pass this one up!
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- Cary D
- 03-19-21
Great book
The narrator’s mispronunciation of Chapuys drives me nuts but otherwise great book. Lots of good history and overall a pleasant performance.
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- Stacey
- 01-31-23
Fantastic
Very complete, compelling history of the Tudor dynasty. I’m always amazed at how much primary source material remains.
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- Jessica
- 10-25-24
Wonderful Accounting!
Loved this story. We know much of the later Tudors, but I appreciate how much was given to the earlier Tudor queens. Very well narrated and beautifully written.
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- sally
- 06-16-22
Interesting
Very interesting and informative, this is definitely my favorite genre! Will be looking forward to seeing more from him
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- cshaffer
- 04-02-23
Thorough history
I’ve been listening for over a month when I have free time. It was much more thorough than I expected and while I knew a lot about the 6 wives of Henry 8 I did not know that much about Mary. I really enjoyed it.
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- Kristi Vena
- 07-13-23
Loved it!!!
If you like learning about the Tutors and the Queens of that era, I highly recommend this book. Be patient in the beginning, the reader seems flat but gets much better. Thoroughly enjoyed!!!
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