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A fresh go through the endlessly attractive Tudors - the dramatic and overlooked story of Henry VII and his founding of the Tudor Dynasty - filled with spies, plots, counter-plots, and an uneasy royal succession to Henry VIII. Near the convert of the sixteenth century, England had been ravaged for many years by conspiracy and civil war. Henry Tudor clambered to the top of the heap, a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's crown who managed to gain the throne and stay on it for 24 years. Although he built palaces, managed superb jousts, and sent ambassadors across European countries, for many Henry VII remained a false ruler. But he had a crucial asset: his family - the queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Now, in what will be the crowning glory of his reign, his elder son would marry a great Spanish princess. Thomas Penn re-creates an England that is both familiar and incredibly weird - a country middle ages yet modern, in which honor and chivalry mingle with espionage, realpolitik, high money, and corruption. It is the story of the change of a young, vulnerable guy, Prince Henry, in to the aggressive teenager who become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen, as well by Henry VII - managing, avaricious, paranoid, with Machiavellian allure and can to power. Rich with occurrence and drama, filled with wonderfully drawn heroes, Winter King can be an unforgettable bank account of pageantry, intrigue, the thirst for glory, and the fraught, unstable beginning of Tudor England. Thomas Penn has a PhD in early Tudor record from Clare College or university, Cambridge. Winter King is his first booklet.
