'The Boleyn Inheritance,' told in the voices of Jane Boleyn, the only survivor of the Boleyn family, and the two queens she served and betrayed: Anne of Cleeves and Catherine Howard. When Anne comes to England to become queen, she instead nearly ends up being hung as a witch when Jane bears false witness against her. Jane wants Catherine to be queen. While Catherine captures the King's love, she too finds it's not enough to save her from his murderous...

Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives -- King Henry VIII -- commands her to marry him. Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces: the previous queen lasted sixteen months, the one before barely half a year. But Henry adores his new bride and Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family, creates a radical study circle...

The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of...

Historian Fox offers this first dual biography of the daughters of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabella whose entwined royal relationships helped define the 15th- and 16th-century European political landscape.

Originally published in 1905, Daughters of the Puritans captures the lives of seven extraordinary American women from the New England area, whose influential writings and work in the nineteenth century transformed the nation. This audiobook contains biographies of: Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1789—1867 Mary Lovell Ware - 1798—1849 Lydia Maria Child - 1802—1880 Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1802—1887 Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli - 1810—1850 Harriet...

Starkey's account is no rehash; his take on Henry's reign, most specifically Great Harry's sequence of consorts--a "turning point in English history second only to the Norman conquest"--is based on heretofore un- or at least under-investigated documentary evidence. He has new things to say about Henry's queens, especially the first and longest in tenure, Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Spain's king Ferdinand and queen Isabella (their divorce began...