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Alison Weir
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Book1st American edGrove Weidenfeld1992
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The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life.
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B HENRY VIII (AVAILABLE)
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Jasper Ridley
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Book1st American edViking1985
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Henry VIII is portrayed against a background of pageantry and colour of a true Renaissance prince. His enormous appetite for life in most of its forms helps establish him as the most formidable King that has ever sat on the English throne.
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Antonia Fraser
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BookFirst EditionKnopf1992
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In an evocative portrait of Tudor England, the author of The Warrior Queens presents a provocative study of the diverse and complex characters of the six wives of Henry VIII and their impact on their world.
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942.052 Fra (AVAILABLE)
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Margaret George
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Book1st Ballantine BooksBallantine Books1987
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An extraordinary novel that brings into vivid focus the larger-than-life King Henry VIII, monarch of prodigious appetites for wine, women, and song. “It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and lively conversation…Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story.” DETROIT FREE PRESS
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Alison Weir
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BookFirst U. S.Ballantine Books2001
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On a grand stage rich in pageantry, intrigue, passion, and luxury, Weir records the many complex human dramas that swirled around Henry, while deftly weaving in an account of the intimate rituals and desires of England’s ruling classtheir sexual practices, feasts and sports, tastes in books and music, houses and gardens.Stimulating and tumultuous, the court of Henry VIII attracted the finest minds and greatest beauties in Renaissance Englandpoets Wyatt and Surrey, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, “feasting ladies” like Elizabeth Blount and Elizabeth FitzWalter, the newly rich Boleyn family and the ancient aristocratic clans like the Howards and the Percies, along with the entourages and connections that came and went with each successive wife.
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Alison Weir
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BookBallantine Books1996
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At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; Instead, his brief reign was marked by vicious court intrigue that took the monarchy to the verge of bankruptcy.Edward’s death in 1553 plunged England into chaos, and it was in this explosive atmosphere that the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey was crowned Queen of England.
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Philippa Gregory
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BookBook Club EditionTouchstone2005
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and for them and for the country, I will be Queen of England until I die.” Raised on the battlefield and in the most beautiful Moorish palace in the world, sent to England alone at the age of sixteen to take her place in a court where she couldn’t speak the language, and abandoned and forced to endure poverty after the death of her husband, Katherine remained a woman of indomitable spirit, unwavering faith, and extraordinary strength.
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Columbia; screenplay by Robert Bolt; produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann
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BookSpecial edSony Pictures Home Entertainment2007
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Alison Weir
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Book1Ballantine Books2010
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Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world’s most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn’s final days.The tempestuous love affair between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn scandalized Christendom and altered forever the religious landscape of England.
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Philippa Gregory
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BookTouchstone Books2007
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Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. A rich and compelling tale of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamorous court in Europe and survived by following her own heart.
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edited by J. C. Trewin
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Book1stPaul Elek Ltd.1972
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822.02 Six (AVAILABLE)
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by Rosemary Minard; illustrated by Philip Smith
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Book1stKnopf Books for Young Readers1982
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Meg, an innkeeper’s daughter, as tall as the tallest man in Westminister, puts on her father’s clothes and joins the British army setting out to invade France led by the King himself.
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Showtime presents in association with Peace Arch Entertainment; producers, John Weber, James Flynn
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BookDistributed by Paramount Home Entertainment2009
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BBC Films; Focus Features; Relativity Media; Ruby Films; Scott Rudin Productions; produced by Alison Owen, Scott Rudin; screenplay by Peter Morgan; directed by Justin Chadwick
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BookSony Pictures Home Entertainment2008
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BookShowtime Entertainment2008
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