![]() ![]() ![]() In this remarkable book, Thomas Penn re-creates the story of the tragic, magnetic Henry VII-a controlling, paranoid, avaricious monarch who was entering the most perilous years of his long reign. On a cold November day sixteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrived in London for a wedding that would mark a triumphal moment in Henry’s reign. ![]() Now their older son, Arthur, was about to marry a Spanish princess. ![]() Henry himself was from the House of Lancaster, so between them they united the warring parties that had fought the bloody century-long Wars of the Roses. Queen Elizabeth was a member of the House of York. For many he remained a usurper, a false king.īut Henry had a crucial asset: his queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap-a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s throne. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. A fresh look at the endlessly fascinating Tudors-the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty-filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. ![]()
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