the acclaimed Weir offers well-researched surprise after surprise about the sensual, rather avaricious but eminently admirable Isabella.' - USA Today Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley ' The finest historian of English monarchical succession writing now is Alison Weir. a highly readable tour de force that brings Queen Isabella vividly to life.' - The Washington Post Book World ' Insightful. Praise for Alison Weir Queen Isabella ' Compelling, gripping and believable. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history.

Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. She has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction.

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