Bess of Hardwick: Her Ambitious Rise From Obscurity To Dominance
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How a farmer’s daughter from Derbyshire become a power player in the cutthroat Tudor court and the wealthiest woman in England.
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How a farmer’s daughter from Derbyshire become a power player in the cutthroat Tudor court and the wealthiest woman in England.
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How circumstance, luck, and fate wound up giving England one of the country’s greatest monarchs in the form of an unusually resilient young redheaded woman.
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Kathryn Parr lived through the lives and deaths of Henry VIII’s previous five wives, which is likely how she learned to survive him.
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Catherine Howard was elevated from obscurity, burned fire bright, and died for it.
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Anne of Cleves was out of her depth at English court, but wound up living longer and happier than any of Henry’s other wives.
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Taking a closer look at the brief marriage and reign of a kind woman who is oven overshadowed by the drama of her predecessors.
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It took seven years for Anne to become Queen. It only took four months for her to lose everything, including her head.
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