![]() ![]() I will say that the title “Complete Story” is a little bit misleading. It was the only Tudor book that I read as an assigned book and I do have fond memories reading it, so I decided that I would go back and reread it years later. Unlike many of the books on my blog, I did read this book before when I was in college. Meyer paints a darker picture of the era in his book, “The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty”. Many historians have viewed the Tudor dynasty as a time of great change and England was in a good place. ![]() Finally, Queen Elizabeth I, who never married and led England to a “Golden Age”. ![]() Queen Mary I, who was the first Queen of England to rule in her own right and wanted to restore the Catholic Church. King Edward VI, Henry VIII’s beloved son who died before he really could accomplish the reformation that he had planned for England. King Henry VIII, the second son whose numerous wives and his split from the Catholic Church made his name infamous in history. Henry Tudor, who became King Henry VII after defeating King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. The Tudor dynasty and the enigmatic figures who made this time period so fascinating have been hotly discussed for centuries. ![]()
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