Rose of England by Hilda Lewis

The Mary Tudor Story Book One

From the Crushed Lime Media collection for readers 16 and older

Mary, the youngest sister of Henry VIII, is the loveliest and most attractive personality of all the Tudors. With all the striking looks—the golden hair and blue eyes—which marked the family, she had their brilliance, too. What she lacked was the coldness and the calculation in the grain of the Tudor character.

The man on whom she set her heart was Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. Brave and handsome, he had a way with women and was so well in favor with Henry VIII that they called him the `second king'. Henry, however, had no mind that his sister—the vital pawn in his continental marriage game—should marry a mere subject and disrupt his diplomatic plans. Mary knew her duty to her country, and to her brother as her King, but she knew the strength of passion, too.

Rose of England is the first in a two-book series about Mary Tudor. The second is Heart of a Rose.

Hilda Lewis, in this novel completed not long before her death, captures the essence of a situation as complex and dangerous as any woman has ever known. The background to the first part of this duplex story is the brilliant renaissance tapestry of the courts of England, France, and Spain.