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The House of Dudley: A New History of the Tudor Era

Joanne Paul retells the Tudor era through the ambitious Dudley family, whose fortunes rose and fell beside every monarch from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. Advisers, soldiers, courtiers, conspirators, and royal favorites pursued power through service, marriage, finance, and calculated risk. Figures including John Dudley and Robert Dudley reveal how proximity to the crown could bring extraordinary influence or sudden destruction. The book shows the Tudors not as solitary rulers but as monarchs dependent on networks like the Dudleys, whose repeated recoveries expose the unstable machinery beneath one of England's most famous dynasties.

Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 2023
Format: Print edition
Pages: 528
ISBN: 9781639363285

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