About the Author

Alison Plowden worked at the BBC as a script editor in Features and Drama, before leaving to work as a full-time writer. She specialised in the Tudor and Stuart periods and had numerous books published including Henrietta Maria, The House of Tudor, Two Queens in One Isle and Elizabeth I.

Reviews

"An ornate, admiring history of everyone's favorite English dynasty . . . [Plowden] writes with regal flair of the domestic intrigues, misalliances, and contretemps on which the destinies of a nation turned." --Kirkus Reviews