- Mistresses, Kings and rulers, Fiction, Paramours
When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her powerfully ambitious sister, Anne Boleyn.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, grave, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Philippa Gregory
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 664
- Publisher
- Touchstone, HarperCollinsPublishers, ISIS Publishing
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781416556534
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 19 have read it and 69 want to.
“I COULD HEAR A ROLL OF MUFFLED DRUMS.”
Philippa Gregory was born on 9 January 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya, the second daughter of Elaine (Wedd) and Arthur Percy Gregory, a radio operator and navigator for East African Airways. When she was two years old, her family moved to England. She was a "rebel" at school, but managed to attend the University of Sussex. She worked in BBC radio for two years before attending the University of Edinburgh, where she earned her doctorate in 18th-century literature, and she was named Alumna of the Year 2009. She has taught at the University of Durham, University of Teesside, and the Open University, and was made a Fellow of Kingston University in 1994. Philippa wrote her first novel Wideacre while comp
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The Rose Code 202185% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Boy's life 199184% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Vampires of el Norte 202383% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
The Phantom of the Opera 199482% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
Stalking Jack the Ripper 201682% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
The Paris Architect 201381% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
Captive Prince 201381% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
A Great and Terrible Beauty 200380% alikeBoth classical in form, grave, earnest.
The Wild One 195387% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, grave, earnest.
The Left Hand of God 195585% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, grave, earnest.