The Last Tudor Audiobook (Free)
- Bianca Amato
- 19 h 11 min
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2017-08-08
Summary:
The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features perhaps one of the most famous ladies in history, Woman Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.
Jane Gray was queen of England for nine days. Her dad and his allies crowned her rather than the dead king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an military, stated her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant beliefs, Mary sent her towards the about THE FINAL Tudor executioner’s stop, where Jane changed her father’s greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom.
“Learn you to expire,” was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to take pleasure from her beauty and her youngsters and fall in love. But she is heir towards the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine’s being pregnant betrays her key marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, just yards from her sister’s scaffold.
“Farewell, my sister,” writes Katherine to the youngest Gray sister, Mary. A lovely dwarf, disregarded from the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her very own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is normally acutely alert to her own danger, but decided to order her own lifestyle. What will happen when the final Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?