Contents

List of Illustrations

Map

Family trees

          The Past

          The Family

Introduction

Part One

THE COMING OF THE TUDORS:

A MOTHER’S LOVE

  1.  An Ordinary Man

  2.  A Child Bride

  3.  A Prisoner, Honourably Brought up

  4.  The Wheel of Fortune

  5.  Enter Richard III

  6.  The Princes in the Tower

  7.  The Exile

  8.  Bosworth

  9.  The Rose and the Passion

10.  Securing the Succession

11.  The Lost Prince

12.  Punishment

13.  Death and Judgement

14.  Exit Margaret Beaufort

Part Two

INHERITANCE:

THE LEGACY OF ARTHUR

15.  The Elder Sister: Margaret, Queen of Scots

16.  The Younger Sister: Mary, The French Queen

17.  A Family Reunion and a Royal Rival

18.  Enter Anne Boleyn

19.  A Marriage on Trial

20.  The Return of Margaret Douglas

21.  The Terror Begins

22.  The Fall of Anne Boleyn

23.  Love and Death

24.  Three Wives

25.  The Last Years of Henry VIII

26.  Elizabeth in Danger

27.  Mary in Danger

28.  The Last Tudor King

Part Three

SETTING SUN:

THE TUDOR QUEENS

29.  Nine Days

30.  Revolt

31.  Marriage and Sons

32.  A Flickering Light

33.  A Married Man

34.  Dangerous Cousins

35.  Royal Prisoners

36.  Murder in the Family

37.  Exit Margaret Douglas

38.  The Virgin Queen

39.  The Daughter of Debate

40.  The Armada

41.  Setting Sun

42.  The Hollow Crown

Epilogue

APPENDICES

  1.  What happened to the body of James IV?

  2.  The Mysterious Quarrel between Henry VIII and Margaret Douglas

  3.  Guildford and Jane Dudley

  4.  The Myth of Frances Brandon the Child Abuser

  5.  The Obscure Margaret Clifford, Heir to the Throne 1578–96

Author’s Note and Acknowledgements

Notes

Index