Tudor history has pretty much always been my favourite era of any historical period ever. There's just so much drama and intrigue and the personalities were so immense, be it Henry VIII or his two daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Back in November, there was a big audiobook sale over at Audible, an...
This was a fun, fascinating, and surprisingly riveting history, but I cannot in good conscience give more than 3 stars to anything with so many word-for-word repeated sentences (especially ones that so often concerned minor details like who-wore-what). Definitely a neat companion to the ubiquitous T...
I tend to read a lot of smut, and then I balance it out by reading big, heavy tomes of nonfiction. This composite biography of Henry VIII's many wives felt like the best of both worlds, since the "story" is as juicy and as engaging as historical fiction, yet also rich with pictures and quotes from p...
I’ve read some Phillipa Gregory and Hillary Mantel titles about Henry VIII and was totally entranced. Which is weird because I’m Afrikaans, live in South Africa, and never even had history at school. The only problem with the historical fiction titles, is that they only deal with one or two wives at...
I used this as a source for a research paper, but found that I truly enjoyed it just for READING. The Tudor period is one of my favorites in British history, and it was good supplemental material when I was studying mostly Brit Lit in college.
I am a history lover, in fact that is what I am majoring in so when I was assigned to read a non-fiction book my first thought was it had to be an interesting time in history. I ended up with this book because I had never seen the story of all six wives in one book before. It did wonderfully on brin...
Very detail-oriented, but still a good story. I enjoyed learning the facts behind the legends. The pics of Henry aging and of all his wives were great - they are like real people with funny chins and wonky noses.
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