The Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood
The Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Elizabeth I’s courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth?The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of…
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The Tudors in Love - Sarah Gristwood
Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Elizabeth I’s courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth?The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Why did Anne Boleyn have to die?
In this ground-breaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty. Yet too often they’re dismissed as something existing only in books and song – those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy.Not so. From Henry VIII declaring himself as the ‘loyal and most assured servant’ of Anne Boleyn to Elizabeth I’s poems to