Leanda de Lisle, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-345-45045-6
Queen Elizabeth famously refused to marry, causing a foreign-born king to ascend to the English throne in 1603. In her first book, Lisle nimbly examines Elizabeth's waning months and the introduction of James VI of Scotland as James I of England,
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Leanda de Lisle, Author . Ballantine $30 (350p) ISBN 978-0-345-49135-0
Although the Tudor era has inspired a flood of literature, de Lisle (After Elizabeth
), in her second book, illuminates three remarkable characters of the time, the Grey sisters, who were named by both Henry VIII and his son, Edward, as heirs to the
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Leanda de Lisle. PublicAffairs, $29.99 (560p) ISBN 978-1-61039-363-8
This fresh take on the Tudor dynasty is history at its best. Covering everything from the Tudors’ obscure beginnings, when a Welsh squire named Owen Tudor literally fell into the lap of Henry V’s widow, Catherine of Valois, and later married her, to
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Leanda de Lisle. Pegasus, $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-63936-280-6
Historian de Lisle (Tudor) delivers a persuasive revisionist biography of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669). Challenging depictions of Henrietta Maria as the “popish brat” who caused the English Civil War by turning her husband, King Charles I,...
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Leanda de Lisle, Author, Wanda McCaddon, Read by , read by Wanda McCaddon. Tantor Media $34.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-1366-8
While multitudes of books and films focus on King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, and Mary Stuart, de Lisle’s intelligent and well-researched biography of the three Tudor sisters demonstrates that not enough attention has been lavished on these
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