Jean Plaidy

One of history's most complex and alluring women, Anne Boleyn was irresistible to kings and commoners alike....

Widowed at 18 years old, Mary is once again forced to leave her home to return to Scotland. Now a Catholic queen in a Protestant country, Mary must rule with caution and choose her next husband prudently....

Scotland has been torn apart by civil war, and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies....

The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land. Now he was England's king and a man fit for his destiny....

News of Thomas à Becket’s martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom....

Reckoned by those about him to be the most handsome man in the country, Edward IV has risen to the throne with the help of Warwick, the kingmaker....

France eagerly awaits the day the young king, Louis XV, comes of age and breaks free from the rule of his ministers....

At the age of 32, Richard the Lionheart has finally succeeded Henry II to the English throne....

At the age of 15, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles....

When William X dies, the duchy of Aquitaine is left to his 15-year-old daughter, Eleanor....

Princess Mary Rose is the youngest sister of King Henry VIII, and one of the few people whom he adores unconditionally....

The young Princess Victoria, strictly confined within the boundaries of Kensington Palace, is being moulded for her awesome future as Queen of England....

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be more suited to a quiet life....

On the death of Henry V, a nine-month-old baby is made King of England. Ambitious men surround the baby king, including his two uncles, the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester, who both have plans....

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome, Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious family....

The death of the King’s son aboard the doomed White Ship, left the ageing Henry I again without an heir....

Albert is dead....

Isabella and Ferdinand rule over a newly united Spain, steadfast in their determination to build the powerful state they have always dreamed of....

Married to Ferdinand after numerous fears and disappointments, Isabella triumphs over every danger, convinced of her own destiny....

No longer the well-beloved, Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular - the huge expense of his court and decades of costly warfare having taken their toll....