The Last Tudor
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Simon & Schuster Audio , 2017.
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New York Times Bestseller 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.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 half 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 their queens, 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 Queen Elizabeth?

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eAudiobook
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Unabridged
Street Date
08/08/2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781442394025

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Unveiling portraits of the past laced with vivid historically accurate detail, Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory are both queens of the complexly woven tale of significant events and figures. -- Tara Bannon Williamson
Elizabeth Chadwick and Philippa Gregory write historical novels that contain an excellent use of history, vividly detailed settings, and realistically complex characters when family sagas. -- Kathy Stewart
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Prolific chroniclers of British royalty, Robin Maxwell and Philippa Gregory evoke the splendor and pageantry of late medieval and early Renaissance times with insight into the inner lives of kings, queens, and other famous figures. Their dramatic, romantic novels swirl with illicit passion, political intrigue, family machinations, and complex relationships. -- Sarah Johnson
Both Susan Vreeland and Philippa Gregory focus on women in history in richly detailed novels that include intriguing portraits of main and secondary characters. A romantic tone and elaborate settings that reflect social and cultural life as well as historical details flavor these well-researched, leisurely-unfolding novels. -- Joyce Saricks
Though the period settings of their novels differ, Michelle Moran and Philippa Gregory feature well-realized female protagonists, usually royalty or members of the royal circle, and focus on the intrigue and romance of their lives against the bigger backdrop of court politics. -- Bethany Latham
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While Anne O'Brien writes historical fiction often set in England during the Plantagenet era and Philippa Gregory concentrates on the House of Tudor, both feature real people from the past in their character-driven work. Their rich detail and descriptive prose conjure the romance, drama, and atmosphere of old England. -- Mike Nilsson
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Published Reviews

Booklist Review

Three Tudor sisters attempt to navigate their perilous positions as possible heirs to the throne of England. After the death of her cousin, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey's father and uncles maneuver to place her on the throne. Her reign lasts only nine days before she is imprisoned, tried for treason, and eventually executed. Viewed as a threat to the childless Queen Elizabeth, Katherine Grey is imprisoned after her clandestine marriage and pregnancy are exposed. Though the last Grey sister, Lady Mary, born small and a bit twisty, is appointed as a lady-in-waiting to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, she knows from bitter family experience her position is a precarious one. Physically challenged, she is often overlooked and discounted, but Mary is determined to pave her own path to independence, love, and happiness. The story of Lady Jane Grey is well-trod territory, but Gregory (The King's Curse, 2014) adds a fresh spin on an old story by adding her lesser-known sisters to the mix. Expect high demand for another outstanding entry in Gregory's ongoing and best-selling Tudor saga.--Flanagan, Margaret Copyright 2017 Booklist

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Library Journal Review

Lady Jane Grey (1536-54), a legitimate Tudor heir, reigned over England for only nine days following the death of her second cousin, the Protestant Edward VI in 1553. Fearful that Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter by Katharine of Aragon, would return England to the Catholic faith if she became queen, Edward VI and the Duke of Northumberland engineered Lady Jane's reign to ensure England remained Protestant. The plan failed; Lady Jane Grey was beheaded in 1554. Mary ruled England until her death in 1558, and Elizabeth, her half-sister, ascended the throne. Written in the first person, Gregory's (Three Sisters, Three Queens) captivating latest entry in her Plantagenet and Tudor series considers Lady Jane's brief reign and then explores the lives of her sisters, Katherine and Mary, also Tudor heirs, as Elizabeth I's insidious insecurity and arbitrary rage intertwine with their lives. Elizabeth imprisons both after each marries in secret without the monarch's permission. Verdict An ideal companion to Leanda de Lisle's The Sisters Who Would Be Queen, Gregory's first-person perspective on late Tudor England's turbulent history will delight existing and future fans.-Penelope J.M. Klein, Fayetteville, NY © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Kirkus Book Review

The bloodlines, if not the ambitions, of three Tudor sisters imperil their lives.Gregory's multivolume chronicle of the Tudor dynasty, with its emphasis on the women, now turns to the ill-fated scholar and Protestant reformer Jane Grey and her two sisters, Katherine and Mary, grandnieces of Henry VIII. Upon the death of Henry's sickly son, King Edward VI, Jane, through complex machinations on the part of Protestant nobles wishing to block the accession of papist Princess Mary, takes the throne of England. In a matter of days, as told in Jane's first-person sectionone of three, each narrated by a Grey sisterJane is deposed by Princess Mary's forces and, after several months' imprisonment in the Tower, beheaded. As a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, who has succeeded Princess Mary, Katherine thinks the Greys are out of danger until she marries her lover Edward "Ned" Seymour in secret, without royal permission. Through a drawn-out tragedy of errors, most ascribable to youth, bad timing, and political naivet, Katherine and Ned find themselves in the following predicaments: he goes on an extended tour of France and Italy having been assured by Katherine that she is not pregnant, though she later learns that she is. Ned's sister Janey Seymour and the officiating minister, the only witnesses to the marriage, die and disappear, respectively. Unable to reach Ned, who is not answering her letters, Katherine seeks help elsewhere but is universally rebuffed, then arrested; she gives birth to her son in the Tower. Katherine's section of the book, the longest, drags: since she knows very little, her first-person point of view cannot enlighten the reader, who spends many pages mulling over multiple mysteries: why is Ned incommunicado? Will he return? Can Katherine prove her son is legitimate? Will Elizabeth pardon her? Etc. The third sister, Mary, due to her diminutive size, assumes she is beneath Elizabeth's notice in all respects, but when she emulates Katherine's mistake, she and readers are again forced into a limbo of pondering the queen's next move. Tedium is inevitable as we watch these Tudor heirs wait. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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Booklist Reviews

Three Tudor sisters attempt to navigate their perilous positions as possible heirs to the throne of England. After the death of her cousin, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey's father and uncles maneuver to place her on the throne. Her reign lasts only nine days before she is imprisoned, tried for treason, and eventually executed. Viewed as a threat to the childless Queen Elizabeth, Katherine Grey is imprisoned after her clandestine marriage and pregnancy are exposed. Though the last Grey sister, Lady Mary, "born small and a bit twisty," is appointed as a lady-in-waiting to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, she knows from bitter family experience her position is a precarious one. Physically challenged, she is often overlooked and discounted, but Mary is determined to pave her own path to independence, love, and happiness. The story of Lady Jane Grey is well-trod territory, but Gregory (The King's Curse, 2014) adds a fresh spin on an old story by adding her lesser-known sisters to the mix. Expect high demand for another outstanding entry in Gregory's ongoing and best-selling Tudor saga. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Gregory, P., & Amato, B. (2017). The Last Tudor (Unabridged). Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gregory, Philippa and Bianca Amato. 2017. The Last Tudor. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gregory, Philippa and Bianca Amato. The Last Tudor Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Gregory, P. and Amato, B. (2017). The last tudor. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Gregory, Philippa, and Bianca Amato. The Last Tudor Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

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