Plantagenet and Tudor Books in Order

The Grey sisters, Jane, Katherine and Mary, are heirs of royal blood in a court that fears rivals. Jane’s nine days on the throne end on the scaffold, while Katherine and Mary must decide how far they will risk their lives for love and autonomy under two suspicious queens.

Told from Margaret Tudor’s perspective, this novel follows her, her sister Mary and their sister in law Katherine of Aragon as they become queens of Scotland, France and England. Rivalry, marriage bargains and shifting fortunes test the bonds of their uneasy sisterhood.

Widowed twice, learned Kateryn Parr is shocked to be chosen as Henry VIII’s sixth wife. She tries to use her position to promote religious reform and education, even as she lives with the knowledge of what happened to the queens who came before her.

Born a Plantagenet, Margaret Pole learns to survive under Tudor suspicion. As lady-in-waiting and governess to royal children she watches Henry VIII’s transformation from charming prince to ruthless king, until old loyalties and new faith make her a target.

After Richard III’s defeat at Bosworth, Elizabeth of York must marry Henry Tudor to unite warring houses. She becomes queen to the man who overthrew her family while rumours about the missing princes and a possible surviving brother haunt her new marriage.

Anne Neville grows up as a pawn in the hands of her father, Warwick the Kingmaker, who will change sides and husbands for his daughters to keep his grip on power. Widowed young and nearly powerless, Anne seizes one last risky chance with Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

Jacquetta of Luxembourg marries into England’s royal circle and learns to survive shifting allegiances from the last days of the Hundred Years’ War into the Wars of the Roses. As confidante to queens and mother to Elizabeth Woodville, she witnesses a dynasty’s rise and fall.

From childhood, devout and stubborn Margaret Beaufort believes her son Henry Tudor is destined to be king. Married off for politics and often separated from him, she spends years scheming, praying and risking everything to put him on England’s throne.

Widowed commoner Elizabeth Woodville stops a king on the road to beg for her sons’ inheritance and captures his heart instead. As Queen to Edward IV she must protect her vast family, navigate Warwick the Kingmaker’s anger and face the mystery of her lost princes.

Fleeing rebellion in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots arrives in England expecting safety and instead becomes the long term “guest” of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife, Bess of Hardwick. Their household turns into a nest of plots and divided loyalties.

Told by Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn, this novel follows Henry VIII’s fourth and fifth marriages. As the ageing king’s temper worsens, each woman must read the shifting winds of favour to avoid the fate that claimed Anne Boleyn.

Raised to be Queen of England, Spanish infanta Catalina marries Prince Arthur and unexpectedly finds real love. When he dies, she clings to his deathbed wish and a dangerous lie so she can wed his brother Harry and claim the crown she was promised.

Newly crowned Elizabeth I inherits a fractured kingdom and a chorus of advisers urging her to marry. She instead leans on childhood friend Robert Dudley, whose neglected wife Amy Robsart watches their intimacy grow until scandal and tragedy close in.

Hannah Green, a young Jewish refugee with the gift of the Sight, is taken into the Tudor court as a “holy fool.” Serving Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I in turn, she spies, survives persecutions and learns where her true loyalties lie.

Mary Boleyn is pushed to court to charm King Henry VIII and finds herself competing with her sister Anne for his favour. As passion turns to politics, she must choose between family ambition, her own conscience and a safer life beyond the court.