Studying the bloody Tudor era, the Englishwoman Alison Weir until recently published biographies of kings and pretenders to the British throne that had enorm...

Alison Ware, historian and bestselling author of Catherine of Aragon. The True Queen" and "Anne Boleyn. The Passion of a King,” creates a very detailed and c...

Catalina, the daughter of the great Spanish monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, grew up in the firm belief that she would definitely be the...

Spring 1540. Henry VIII is trying to get rid of his unattractive German wife Anne of Cleves. The prematurely aged king looks favorably at the pretty nineteen...

English Princess Elizabeth was born at the height of the Wars of the Roses - dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York. The eldest daughter of the royal hous...

Their love affair caused a scandal in Europe. Of course, the brilliant Elizabeth Tudor, who declared herself a “virgin queen,” could not contain her feelings...

After the execution of his beloved but unfaithful wife Catherine in February 1542, Henry VIII turns his attention to the twice-widowed Catherine Parr. Howeve...

England, 1536. In English history there was no royal court more magnificent and brilliant. But beneath the glittering gilding lives treason... Elizabeth Tudo...

Young Katherine Gray, the younger sister of Jane, Queen of England, known in history as the “Nine Day Queen,” expects only good things from life: she is rich...

The life of the medieval queens of England was eventful - love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery and wars. But the details of their biographies, after many centu...

From one of the world's foremost popular historians, a detailed and intricate portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figur...

Trubadours sang her praises, knights shed their blood for her in tournaments. Kings bowed their heads before the intelligence and beauty of this woman. Her l...