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Description Description It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap--a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's throne. For many he remained a usurper, a false king.But Henry had a crucial asset: his queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Queen Elizabeth was a member of the House of York. Henry himself was from the House of Lancaster, so between them they united the warring parties that had fought the bloody century-long War of the Roses. Now their older son, Arthur, was about to marry a Spanish princess. On a cold November day sixteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrived in London for a wedding that would mark a triumphal moment in Henry's reign.In this remarkable book, Thomas Penn re-creates the story of the tragic, magnetic Henry VII--a controlling, paranoid, avaricious monarch who was entering the most perilous years of his long reign.Rich with drama and insight, Winter King is an astonishing story of pageantry, treachery, intrigue and incident--and the fraught, dangerous birth of Tudor England. Title: Winter King; Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England Author: Thomas Penn Published March 6th 2012 by Simon & Schuster (first published September 29th 2011) ISBN: 9781439191569 Language: English Series: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2012) Length: Hardcover, 480 pages Uploaded using: PleX's Upload Tool v2.6 Using the core upload module of the KATLoader v1.0.2.0 Description generated in: 1229ms Sharing Widget |