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February 2017 Issue Jessie Childs Courting Disaster Young & Damned & Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII By Gareth Russell LR
October 2015 Issue Leanda de Lisle Married to the Mob The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox By Alison Weir LR
March 2003 Issue Anne Somerset A Royal Rivalry Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals Queens By Jane Dunn LR
February 2004 Issue Paul Johnson Good Queen Bess The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada By Neil Hanson LR
February 2004 Issue Anne Somerset The Scottish Widow 'My Heart is My Own': The Life of Mary Queen of Scots By John Guy LR
November 2010 Issue Leanda de Lisle Courting Disaster Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen By Giles Tremlett LR
March 2009 Issue John Guy Defender Of The Brand Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England By Kevin Sharpe LR
December 2008 Issue Anne Somerset Doomed From Birth The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey By Leanda de Lisle LR
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March 2008 Issue Peter Marshall Cloistered Lives The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery By Geoffrey Moorhouse LR
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