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24 titles for readers of Henry VIII by Eric Ives, selected for shared themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Royalty, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, and Great Britain.

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The Lost Tudor Princess The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas — Alison Weir

The Lost Tudor Princess The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne — Tracy Borman

Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Elizabeth I A Study in Insecurity — Helen Castor

Elizabeth I A Study in Insecurity

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Tudors The Kings and Queens of England’s Golden Age — Jane Bingham

The Tudors The Kings and Queens of England’s Golden Age

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Winter King The Dawn of Tudor England — Thomas Penn

Winter King The Dawn of Tudor England

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England — Kate Hubbard

Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Queen and the Heretic How Two Women Changed the Religion of England — Derek Wilson

The Queen and the Heretic How Two Women Changed the Religion of England

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Lady Penelope The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I — Sally Varlow

Lady Penelope The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Arbella Stuart The Uncrowned Queen — Jill Armitage

Arbella Stuart The Uncrowned Queen

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The Other Tudors Henry VIII’s Mistresses and Illegitimate Children — Philippa Jones

The Other Tudors Henry VIII’s Mistresses and Illegitimate Children

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Elizabeth — Lisa Hilton

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Hunting the Falcon Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage that Shook Europe — John Guy

Hunting the Falcon Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage that Shook Europe

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Margaret Pole The Countess in the Tower — Susan Higginbotham

Margaret Pole The Countess in the Tower

Susan Higginbotham

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Coronation A History of the British Monarchy — Roy Strong

Coronation A History of the British Monarchy

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Last Champion of York Francis Lovell, Richard III’s Truest Friend — Stephen David

Last Champion of York Francis Lovell, Richard III’s Truest Friend

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh — Francis Bacon

The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Mary Boleyn The True Story of Henry VIII’s Favourite Mistress — Josephine Wilkinson

Mary Boleyn The True Story of Henry VIII’s Favourite Mistress

Josephine Wilkinson

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

The Myth of “Bloody Mary” A Biography of Queen Mary I of England — Linda Porter

The Myth of “Bloody Mary” A Biography of Queen Mary I of England

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Elizabeth I The Shrewdness of Virtue — Jasper Ridley

Elizabeth I The Shrewdness of Virtue

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Elizabeth The Forgotten Years — John Guy

Elizabeth The Forgotten Years

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History — Tracy Borman

Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Elizabeth I and Her World — Susan Watkins

Elizabeth I and Her World

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

Elizabeth and Essex A Tragic History — Lytton Strachey

Elizabeth and Essex A Tragic History

Lytton Strachey

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

The Boleyns From the Tudors to the Windsors — Amanda Harvey Purse

The Boleyns From the Tudors to the Windsors

Amanda Harvey Purse

Themes: Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) • Royalty • Great Britain

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