By Jean Plaidy
From exile and struggle to like and loss—every dynasty has a beginning.
Henry Tudor was once no longer born to the throne of britain. Having come of age in a time of political turmoil and probability, the fellow who might turn into Henry VII spent fourteen years in exile in Brittany sooner than returning triumphantly to the Dorset coast with a small military and decisively profitable the conflict of Bosworth Field—ending the struggle of the Roses as soon as and for all and launching the notorious Tudor dynasty.
As Henry’s declare to the throne used to be tenuous, his marriage to Elizabeth of York, daughter and direct inheritor of King Edward IV, not just served to unify the warring homes, it additionally helped Henry safe the throne for himself and for generations to return. And notwithstanding their union was once born from political necessity, it grew to become an excellent love tale that ended in seven teenagers and twenty chuffed years together.
Sweeping and dramatic, To carry the Crown brings readers contained in the genesis of the nice Tudor empire: via Henry and Elizabeth’s ascensions to the throne, their marriage and rule, the heartbreak as a result of the dying in their son Arthur, and, finally, to the crowning in their more youthful son, King Henry VIII.
“Plaidy excels at mixing heritage with romance and drama.”
—New York Times
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One needed influence of course; that, or some great stroke of good fortune, and if only he could find it there was no end to what could happen to him. Bishoprics might come within his grasp and once he had got onto the first rung of the ladder to fame he would rise, he knew it. He had ingenuity and imagination; he had courage … everything a man needed to rise; but as the years passed and he could not take that first step he was becoming more bitter and disillusioned every day. In fact he was getting desperate.
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