Reginald Pole may have come from the royal blood of the House of York but that wouldn’t save him from the wrath of his cousin, King Henry VIII. I have known Samantha Wilcoxson for a couple of years now and I was very excited when she offered me an ARC (advance review copy) of her…
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Author Samantha Wilcoxson recently released the third and final installment of her Plantagenet Embers series with “Queen of Martyrs – The Story of Mary I” and it is a marvelous representation of the lady that will go down in history (whether unfairly) as “Bloody Mary”. Here is a brief synopsis of the book from…
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Guest post by Samantha Wilcoxson for Tudors Dynasty Queen Mary I has gone down in history as ‘Bloody Mary’ thanks to her persecution of Protestants and rebellions against her choice of husband. We may think that marrying the man of her choice is the lesser crime through our modern worldview, but sixteenth century Englishmen were…
