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The Tudors are England's most notorious royal family. But, as Leanda de Lisle's gripping new record reveals, they are a family still more incredible than the one we thought we realized. The Tudor canon typically begins with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 before speeding to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family's obscure Welsh origins and the ordinary man known as Owen Tudor who would fall (virtually) into a queen's lap - and later her bed. It goes by by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant 13-year-old woman who would help found the Tudor dynasty, and the youth and unpleasant exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were molded by their past - those parts they wished to remember and the ones they wished to forget. By creating a complete family portrait established against the background of this former, de Lisle enables us to see the Tudor dynasty in its terms and presents new perspectives and revelations on key information and incidents. De Lisle discovers a family dominated by exceptional women doing everything possible to secure its future; shows why the princes in the Tower were required to vanish; and reexamines the bloodiness of Mary's reign, Elizabeth's fraught human relationships with her cousins, and the true significance of recently overlooked figures. Through the entire Tudor tale, Leanda de Lisle stresses the supreme need for achieving peace and stableness in a violent and uncertain world and of safeguarding and acquiring the bloodline. Tudor is bristling with spiritual and political intrigue but in mind is an exciting story of one family's identified and flamboyant ambition.
