A review by megan_deppe234
The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty by Tracy Borman

4.0

I've read a lot of biographies on the Tudors (specifically the wives, though I'm working on branching out), and the ability to tell their stories without becoming old and dry is hard to do. "The Private Lives" works because it is not just about the juicy relationship drama, the death, the violence. By learning about the details that the Tudors themselves valued - their privacy, their finery, their relationships with those closest to them - the Tudors become less characters in a make-believe tale and more of the living, breathing humans they actually were.