The Last Tudor

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Call Number: Fiction / Gregory, Philippa, Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Gregory, Philippa
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Gregory, Philippa	4-week checkout	Due 05-23-2024

"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block, where Jane transformed her father's greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom. "Learn you to die," was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine's pregnancy betrays her secret marriage she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister's scaffold. "Farewell, my sister," writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy the queen, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?"-- Provided by publisher.

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Three Tudor Sisters submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 24, 2022, 10:42am In "The Last Tudor" Philippa Gregory completes her series of novels about the Tudor dynasty by telling the story of Lady Jane Grey (Queen for Nine Days) and her two younger sisters, Katherine and Mary. All three fall victim to the anger and whims of their cousins on the throne, Mary I ("Bloody Mary") and Elizabeth I. The story is quite heartbreaking in that (spoiler alert!) none of the sisters live or die under the circumstances they would wish. The novel quite accurately portrays Elizabeth I as being selfish and capricious, especially in regards to anyone close to her. As the Grey sisters usually merit little to no recognition by historians or artists, this novel gives a fascinating glimpse into their lives.