num_pages: 400
description: When Henry VIII dies in 1547 he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn - Edward, Mary and Elisabeth - to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendents of his sister Mary Tudor, one of whom was the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, Edward was nine years old, Mary thirty-one and Jane ten. Edward, Elizabeth and Jane were staunch Protestants, Mary a devout Catholic; each had a very different mother and they had grown up in vastly different circumstances. In CHILDREN OF ENGLAND, Alison Weir's interest is not in constitional history but in the characters and relationships of Henry's four Heirs. Making use of a huge variety of contemporary sources, she brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods of English history, when each of Henry's heirs was potentially the tool of powerful political one religious figures, and when the realm was seething with intrigue and turbulent change.
language: English
title: Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII
titlecomplete: Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII
characters: Lady Jane Grey, Edward VI of England, Elizabeth I of England, Mary I of England, Henry VIII of England
genres: Historical, Audiobook, History, Biography, Biography Memoir, Tudor Period, European History, Nonfiction, 16th Century, British Literature
ratings_count: 14952
publisher: Pimlico