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The King's Curse
by Philippa Gregory
This book connects the Cousins War series with the Tudor series, timeline-wise. It's told through the eyes of Margaret Plantaganet, who was for most of her life on the wrong side of history as it were. This is what it adds to the already well known narrative of King Henry VIII's descent from golden prince into mad tyrant. I think this quote from the author's note sums up quite nicely the view this novel takes:
"Margaret went to the scaffold without a charge, a trial, or even adequate notice... Her execution was clumsy, perhaps because of an incompetent executioner, perhaps because she refused to put her head down on the block. As a tribute to her, and to all women who refuse to take punishment meted out to them in an unjust world, I have described her in this novel as dying as she may have lived - resisting the Tudor tyranny."
It's decently written and obviously scrupulously researched, and if you go into it realizing that this is one guess as to how it might have gone, woven in amongst the facts as they are generally accepted, then you should find it an interesting addition to the Tudor narrative.
"Margaret went to the scaffold without a charge, a trial, or even adequate notice... Her execution was clumsy, perhaps because of an incompetent executioner, perhaps because she refused to put her head down on the block. As a tribute to her, and to all women who refuse to take punishment meted out to them in an unjust world, I have described her in this novel as dying as she may have lived - resisting the Tudor tyranny."
It's decently written and obviously scrupulously researched, and if you go into it realizing that this is one guess as to how it might have gone, woven in amongst the facts as they are generally accepted, then you should find it an interesting addition to the Tudor narrative.