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The Last Tudor
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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The Last Tudor
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'How long do I have?' I force a laugh.
'Not long,' he says very quietly. 'They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.'
Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king's half sister Mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block. There Jane turned her father's greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom.
'Learn you to die' is the advice that Jane gives in a letter to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love. But her lineage makes her a threat to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and, when Mary dies, to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she does. So when Katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy, she, too, must go to the Tower.
'Farewell, my sister,' writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary finds it easy to keep secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After watching her sisters defy the queen, Mary is aware of her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne. But she is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Elizabeth.
Read by Bianca Amato, narrator of Three Sisters, Three Queens and The Taming of the Queen.
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- barbara
- 15-04-2022
The last Tudor
Not much has changed in Royal circle’s from then to now.All Royals think they are above the common people and in this day and age we definitely should get rid of these blood sucking creatures for ever.
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- Sue Towler
- 17-08-2018
Excellent story
Loved it, very good narrator. Easy listening. if you love English history you will love this.
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- Bonita N. Jones
- 21-10-2017
Great story
Loved this. Bit of a tear jerker, even if you do know the history behind it.
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- Clara Paganin
- 24-08-2017
Wonderful book enjoyed it thanks
Wonderful beautiful listening book enjoyed every minute of it . Just about took over my life
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- Helen Fearn
- 16-01-2018
The least interesting.
There are no more interesting Tudor relatives to write about. It is time to stop.
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- David
- 15-03-2024
Silly Tudor girls
These silly girls got what they deserved! They did not obey the rules yet seem surprised when they got locked up! Elisabeth was a great queen and this author takes a rather perverse view of her! Overall, rather annoying!
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- Mr Mathew G Jones
- 14-08-2017
Order all wrong
The chapter order for this book is all wrong. At first I thought it was just the author playing with time but the conclusion and authors notes appear about 1/3 in. Did anyone else have this problem?
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