Philippa Gregory Read-Alikes
If you like Gregory’s historical novels of passion and intrigue in the royal courts of King Henry VIII , you’ll find plenty to enjoy in these stories of queens, consorts, and noblewomen.
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Description: Ursula Blanchard finds herself again in the service of Queen Elizabeth I when her (assumed) traitor cousin, Edward, is murdered in a clash of Anglo-Scottish politics.
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Description: Henry VIII’s challenge to the church’s power with his desire to divorce his queen and marry Anne Boleyn set off a tidal wave of religious, political and societal turmoil that reverberated throughout 16th-century Europe.
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Description: In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life.
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Description: This novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.
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Description: Catherine Parr, the least known of Henry VIII’s six wives was the cleverest of them all. Alluring, witty, and resourceful, she was thrown into the intrigue-filled snakepit of the royal court.
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Description: Mary was 25 years old when she left Scotland for the imagined sanctuary of her cousin Elizabeth I’s England, there to remain captive until she was beheaded in 1587. A novel of passion, intrigue and treachery.
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Description: A book about a woman driven by ambition, first for herself and later for her children. Bess Hardwick overcomes impossible odds during some of the most politically insecure times in English history and survives to tell the tale.
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Description: To win the heart of her true love, Lettice Knollys would need to draw on all her charm and courage. For Robert Dudley was the Queen’s lover, and in a land where Elizabeth’s word was law, the shadow of the axe fell on anyone who offended her.
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Description: In this vivid re-creation of Anne Boleyn’s tragic life and death, Maxwell offers his version of a bawdy and indulgent time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and even murder.
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Description: Known as capricious, veering from flirtatious to tyrannical in the blink of an eye, this novel recreates a memoir that Elizabeth herself might have written, revealing fears and passions that, as queen, she was never able to display.
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Description: Against a violent and bloody background, the story of ill-fated Anne Boleyn is told with remarkable tragic insight and is interwoven with that of the other doomed young Queen, Catherine Howard.
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Description: One of the bravest and most wronged women of Tudor England was Lady Jane Grey. A pawn in a dynastic game of the most ruthless stakes she was pushed into marriage and a crown that she did not want.
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