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A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Hannah Green: Main character, Queen Mary's fool, she has visions and spies on behalf of Robert Dudley
- Queen Mary: Daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. The Catholic half-sister of Elizabeth I.
- Princess Elizabeth: The Protestant half-sister of Queen Mary. Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
- Robert Dudley: Courtier, son of the Duke of Northumberland
- Daniel Carpenter: Betrothed to Hannah Green
- John Dee: Alchemist, seer, learned man, friend to Sir Robert Dudley.
- Jane Dormer: Lady in Waiting to Mary 1
- Danny: Son of Daniel and Hannah.
- Lady Mary: Title of Mary I before she became Queen.
- Will Somers: Henry VIII's court jester, fool. Becomes fool for Queen Mary
- Prince Philip: husband of Queen Mary, heir to the Spanish throne
- Mrs. Oddingsell: friend of the Dudleys, and keeper of Robert Dudley's often ill wife
- Amy Dudley: Wife of Lord Robert Dudley
- Edward Courtenay: suggested as husband to Mary and later Elizabeth as well
- Mrs. Ashley: Kat Ashley, chaperone and Lady in waiting to Elizabeth
- Lady Jane Grey: Married to Guilford Dudley, brother of Lord Robert Dudley, Granddaughter of Mary Tudor, sister to Henry VIII, beheaded on orders of Queen Mary I after her brief reign after Edward's death.
- William Pickering: Protestant conspirator of Robert Darnley, Kat Ashley, John Dee
- John Huddlestone: Olderly keeper of Princess Elizabeth during Mary's early reign
- Gardiner: Catholic Bishop and advisor to Queen Mary
- Anne Boleyn: Mother of Elizabeth I
- Thomas Seymour: Courtier, and husband of Henry VIII's last wife/widow, Katherine Parr. Flirts with young Princess Elizabeth living in his pregnant wife's house.
- Katherine Parr: Henry VIII's last wife/widow, Katherine Parr who married Thomas Seymour and died bearing his daughter.
Quotes edit
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“But I never fear trouble with girls, it is their fathers who strike me with terror.”
Robert Dudley -
“You will tell the truth in this court of liars, you will be our innocent in this wicked world.”
The Duke of Northumberland -
“I am commanded by the king, I am commanded by the Duke of Northumberland, I am commanded by his son Lord Robert Dudley, I am commanded by my father; you might as well join in. Every other man in London seems to think he can order me.”
Hannah Green -
“I thought that she was a princess indeed, if she could see last night’s refuge burned to the ground and think only of the struggle ahead of her and not of the ruins left behind.”
Hannah Green -
“This is a court gone dark. Nobody can do anything without being suspected. That is why I sleep. I cannot be accused of plotting in my sleep. I have an innocent sleep. I take care not to dream.”
Will Somers -
“"I have seen sights and traveled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help."”
Hannah Green
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My head and my heart are indivisible. I will not cut myself up into parts so that my heart can have its way and my head think it wrong.
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Ideas are more dangerous than an unsheathed sword in this world, half of them are forbidden, the other half would lead a man to question the very place of the earth itself, safe at the center of the universe.
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Alchemy—the art of change—is how we shall come to understand it, and when we know how things are made, we can make them ourselves, we will have the knowledge of God, we ourselves will be transubstantiated, we shall be angels…”
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The public good had been turned to private profit and there would never be public good again.
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My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.”
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There are rules, unchangeable rules, which command the courses of the planets, the tides of the sea, and the affairs of men, and I know, I absolutely know, that all these things are interlinked: the sea, the planets, and the history of man. With God’s grace and with the skill we can muster we will discover these laws and when we know them…” He paused. “We will know everything.”
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Because this time I was running with the pretender to the throne of England, with Lord Robert Dudley and his army in pursuit, and I was his vassal sworn; her trusted servant, and a Jew; but a practicing Christian, serving a Papist princess in a country sworn to be Protestant.
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I will be a virgin queen, I shall have no children but the people of this country, I shall be their mother. There shall be no one to distract me, there shall be no one to command me. I shall live for them. It is my holy calling. I shall give myself up for them.”
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It was little more than a joke to him. He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.
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“There will be a child, but no child. There will be a king but no king. There will be a virgin queen all-forgotten. There will be a queen but no virgin.” “And Lord Robert Dudley?” he whispered. “He will have the making of a prince who will change the history of the world,” I whispered in reply. “And he will die, beloved by a queen, safe in his bed.”
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Setting & Locations edit
- England
- London
- Calais
- Spain
- France
- Christendom
- Northumberland
- Latin
- Tower
- Greenwich
- Venice
- Europe
- Mass
- Hebrew
- Woodstock
- Framlingham
- Fleet Street
- Smithfield
- Italy
- Paris
- Whitehall Palace
- Tudor
- Israel
- Hunsdon
- Sabbath
- Norfolk
- Padua
- Hungary
- Aragon
- Amsterdam
- Winchester
- Sawston Hall
- Ashridge
First Sentence edit
The girl, giggling and overexcited, was running in the sunlit garden, running away from her stepfather, but not so fast that he could not catch her.
Table of Contents edit
Summer 1548
Winter 1552-1553
Spring 1553
Summer 1553
Autumn 1553
Winter 1554
Spring 1554
Summer 1554
Autumn 1554
Winter 1554-1555
Spring 1555
Spring-Summer 1555
Autumn 1555
Winter 1555
Spring 1556
Summer 1556
Autumn 1556
Winter 1556-1557
Spring 1557
Summer 1557
Winter 1557-1558
Spring 1558
Summer 1558
Autumn 1558
Winter 1558
Series & Lists edit
This is book 4 of 6 in The Tudors. (standard series)
Preceded by The Boleyn Inheritance, and followed by The Virgin's Lover.
This is book 41 of 121 in Znanje - Knjiga dostupna svima. (community list)
This book is in Tudor Historical Fiction. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philippa Gregory (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: November 3, 2003
ISBN: 0007147287
Page Count: 400
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: November 3, 2003
ISBN: 0007147287
Page Count: 400
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR6057.R386
- Dewey: 823.914
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