AuthorAlison Weir
NarratorJulia Franklin
Duration19h 13m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
France, 1152. A beautiful woman is escaping through France, leaving behind two young daughters and a shattered marriage. This woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose is to marry the man she loves, Henry Plantagenet, a man destined for greatness as King of England. Theirs is a union founded on lust which will create a great empire. It will also create the most notoriously vicious marriage in history.
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 23h 5m
Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn Eng...
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Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Sophie Roberts
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 5
Duration 16h 6m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best-selling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen. A naive young woman at the mercy of her ambitious family. At just 19, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love. She comes to court. She...
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Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Beth Eyre
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 6
Duration 19h 17m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best-selling Six Tudor Queens series, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him. A woman torn between love and duty. Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing king's eye falls...
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Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 1
Duration 27h 43m
The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories, and Alison Weir writes a series of novels that offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research and new theories. In all the romancing, has anyone regarded the evidence that Anne Boleyn did not love Henry VIII? Or that Prince Arthur, Katherine of Aragon's fi...
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Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Esther Wane
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 4
Duration 18h 32m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best sellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession and Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, paints a spellbinding portrait of Anna of Kleve, Henry VIII's fourth queen. A German Princess with a guilty secret. The King is in love wi...
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Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 22h 25m
A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose...
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Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Esther Wane
Duration 17h 43m
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe – these determined women often broke through medieval cons...
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Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Rose Akroyd
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 3
Duration 18h 29m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best sellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, draws a finely detailed and enthralling portrait of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third queen. Essential listening for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick. The woman hau...
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Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 25h 51m
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room...
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Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession
Author: Alison Weir
Author Alison Weir
Narrator Anna Bentick
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 2
Duration 21h 15m
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by best-selling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. An unforgettable portrait of the ambitious woman whose fate we know all too well, but whose true motivations may surprise you. Essential listening for fans of Philippa...
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