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Jean Plaidy made her story interesting and compelling and kept me entertained to the end. Mary Tudor was such a tiny blip on the screen of the history of France. Besides the shortness, i wasn't a big fan of this book. "Preface, Section 1 | British History Online", "Venice: April 1532 | British History Online", https://www.tudorsociety.com/25-june-1533-the-death-of-mary-tudor-queen-of-france/, "Venice: November 1514 | British History Online", "Venice: October 1514 | British History Online", "Henry VIII: June 1514, 16-30 | British History Online", "Venice: April 1515 | British History Online", studies about famous tapestries representing Mary Tudor, Images from the Festival Book of the Betrothal to Charles of Castile, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509 - 1514, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2, 1515 - 1518. The younger surviving daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, Mary became the third wife of Louis XII of France, more than 30 years her senior.

This book wasn't quite what I was expecting. Mary, who was as strong a personality as Henry, fought him on this made Henry promise that when Louis died - Mary would be free to marry whom she wished. As she watched the brother she loved begin to turn into the tyrant history confirmed him to be, she had no regrets. I got tired of her beautiful locks of hair and minute descriptions of her garments. She never fails to deliver an easy well-researched read. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (1)Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln (11 March, 1516 - 8 March, 1534) She is the main character in several historical fiction novels: Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! This is my first Jean Plaidy novel, and while i plan to read more, I am a little disappointed in the story telling in this particular novel. Mary Tudor (/ ˈ tj uː d ər /; 18 March 1496 – 25 June 1533) was an English princess who was briefly Queen of France and later progenitor of a family that claimed the English throne.

Charles Brandon died on 22 August 1545, eighteen months before the death of his brother-in-law Henry VIII. I liked the book but I felt the chapters were a little long.I was a bit confused when it went into the background of the young king of france, Francois.I don't think I realized until half way into the chapter. Mary lived a quiet life in the country, although was known to have been present at the famous Field of the Cloth of Gold at Guines, near Calais in 1520, where her beauty was much remarked upon. Following his death, she married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. This book wasn't quite what I was expecting. This book took awhile to sink into because Plaidy jumps between POVs without any warning. Her husband remarried for a fourth time after Mary's death, to the fourteen year old heiress Catherine Willoughby de Eresby, by whom he had two sons, Charles and Henry Brandon. Hello, does anyone know of a non-fiction reference book that covers all the historical kings & queens of France? The start is nice but there is very little about her later years. Perhaps it is because this has been written before my generation (( am 24 and an avid historical fiction reader), but i found the writing a little bland. I first read this several years ago and have read it multiple times since. Mary Tudor (28 March 1495 – 25 June 1533) was the youngest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.She was princess of England, and was Queen of France for three months. Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs. George Percival Hibbert was a British author of about 200 historical novels, most of them under the pen name, “Yet a simple ceremony in an English church, with no jewels, no brilliant company, no crown, could have made her the happiest woman in the world, providing the right man had shared that ceremony with her.”, “To love was the greatest adventure life had to offer; but to love was to suffer.”. Parts of this felt like bits of other books stapled together, but I enjoyed hearing more about Mary, who is often a side character in other people's stories. Mary Tudor was such a tiny blip on the screen of the history of France. A second prospective husband for the then eighteen year old Mary was chosen by Henry VIII, as part of a peace treaty negotiated by Cardinal Wolsey with France in 1514. Also, t. This was my first Jean Plaidy book and my last. Mary was Charles Brandon's third wife, and he had two daughters, Anne and Mary, by his second marriage to Anne Browne, who had died in 1511.

It's about Mary, Henry VIII's little sister, and her marriages, and how she fell in love. I never felt the fear, the joy, pain or love. Then she learns the hard way that being a royal princess has its downside.

(3) Lady Eleanor Brandon (1519 - September 27, 1547) m. Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. I was thinking this was super short, then checked and it has 304 pages still, so you see my mind frame from those really long ones LOL. We start off with Mary's story, then midway through, switch to an entirely different story about France, then bring Mary back in. Mary shared her elder brother's exuberant and willful nature, in common with him, she enjoyed dancing, masques, and parties.