In the Shadow of the Crown
Author: Jean Plaidy
As Henry VIII’s only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry’s first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother. But her father’s ill-fated love for Anne Boleyn would shatter Mary’s life fo….Read More
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