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

byJoanne Paul

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