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Chronicles & Castles 🏰
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items Fascinating stories of the real‐life women that British royal history doesn't teach you about 👑 plus more historical fiction you won't be able to put down 📚 Welcome to your next book binge! These novels include women from the War of the Roses &...
The extraordinary life of Jaquetta Woodville, who became a Duchess, birthed a QUEEN OF ENGLAND and was put on trial for witchcraft! A historical fiction based on REAL events. You won't be able to put this down!
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory (#1 in Series)
Sequel to "The Lady of the Rivers" (in this list) about Queen Elizabeth Woodville, mother to The Princes in the Tower. Based on REAL events and people.
Bonus: Starz show is PHENOMENAL
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (#2 in Series)
Same time period as "The White Queen" (in this list) about Margaret Beaufort, who was married at 12 and gave birth to King Henry VII (yes, King Henry VIII's father!) at just 13 years old.
Bonus: Watch Margaret in the Starz show "The White Queen"
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory (#3 in Series)
Same time period as "The White Queen" (in this list) about Anne Neville, Queen of King Richard III 👑 and daughter to the Earl of Warwick
Bonus: Watch Anne Neville in the hit show "The White Queen" on Starz
The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory (#4 in Series)
Queen Elizabeth of York 👑 who marries King Henry VII (that's right, Henry VIII's father!)
Bonus: also a Starz mini series "The White Princess"
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory (#5 in Series)
Queen Katherine of Aragon, the 1st out of 7 wives to King Henry VIII 👑
Bonus: also a Starz mini series called "The Spanish Princess"
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory (#6 in Series)
Sequel to "The Constant Princess" (in this list) about Margaret Pole, who was a contender to the English throne and threat to both King Henry VII & VIII 👑
The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory (#7 in Series)
Same time period as "The Constant Princess" (in this list) about three soon-to-be Queens under one castle: Katherine of Aragon, Margaret & Mary Tudor. Wife and sisters of King Henry VIII 👑
Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory (#8 in Series)
The story of how sisters Mary & Anne Boleyn caught the eye of King Henry VIII 👑
Bonus: Watch "The Other Boleyn Girl" movie starring Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory (#9 in Series)
Follows Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Jane Rochford during the most volatile court in Europe: King Henry VIII's 👑
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory (#10 in Series)
Katherine Parr: Henry VIII's 6th and final wife. She was the first woman and Queen in England to publish a book under her own name.
Read how he commanded her to marry him and how she became "the wife who survived him" 👑
The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory (#11 in Series)
One of my FAV books of this series.
"Into a Tudor court on the brink of treason comes Hannah, a young Jewish girl on the run from the Inquisition. Sworn into the service of a handsome Robert Dudley, he sends her as a Holy Fool to spy on Princess Ma...
The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory (#12 in Series)
About Queen Elizabeth I 👑, her alleged lover lover Robert Dudley, and the untimely death of his wife Amy Dudley
The Virgin's Lover - Philippa Gregory (#13 in Series)
Follow the lives of the three Grey sisters. One of whom is Lady Jane Grey, who was crowned Queen for nine days before Queen Mary I (Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon's daughter) had her executed.
This novel follows the precarious position of the...
The Last Tudor - Philippa Gregory (#14 in Series)
Read the untold story of
Mary, Queen of Scots 👑
a historical fiction based on REAL events
Bonus:
The hit TV show "Reign" follows her life but is not historically accurate.
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory (#15 in Series)
The untold story of Jane Boleyn (sister to Anne Boleyn), a woman who dared to survive at any cost
Boleyn Traitor | NEW | #1 Bestseller
Philippa Gregory and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of:
Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford
(The Lady of the Rivers)
Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV
(The White Queen)
Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII 👑
(The Red Quee...
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's ...
SCANDALOUS! Set in 18th-century England, it follows the story of Beatrice Lacey, a woman who is determined to keep her ancestral estate, Wideacre, despite being a woman in a time when she has no right to inherit. The novel explores her increasingly r...
Wideacre (Wideacre Trilogy #1) by Philippa Gregory, Paperback
Sequel to "Wideacre" (in this list). Set in 18th-century Sussex, England, it follows Julia Lacey as she and her cousin Richard try to restore the family's bankrupt estate, Wideacre, while navigating a secret betrothal and a mystical connection to the...
The Favored Child (Wideacre Trilogy #2) by Philippa Gregory, Paperback
Sequel to "The Favored Child" (in this list). Follow the story of Meridon, the lost heir to the Wideacre estate, as she escapes a life of poverty with a traveling circus to reclaim her birthright in Georgian England. The novel explores themes of iden...
Meridon (Wideacre Trilogy #3) by Philippa Gregory, Paperback
The fascinating life of Queen Elizabeth of York 👑 who was a key figure in ending The War of the Roses 🌹
Also in this list about her:
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
Bonus: Watch the Starz mini series "The White Princess"
Plantagenet Princess Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York
The interesting life of Queen Mary I, the daughter of King Henry VIII 👑
Read about who the legend of "Bloody Mary" came from 🩸
Queen of Martyrs: The Story of Mary I
The life of Margaret Pole, the last surviving member of the Plantagenet dynasty, during the reign of King Henry VIII 👑
Faithful Traitor: The Story of Margaret Pole