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The complete history of one of the most fascinating families ever! We start in Wales in the 1200s, with a man called Tudur ap Goronwy. Then we fast forward to his great-great-grandson, Owain, who has an affair with the mother of the English king. Their son becomes Henry VII, who snatches the crown from Richard III's severed head on a muddy battlefield during the Wars of the Roses. Then comes the infamous Henry VIII, the arrogant second son who was never supposed to be king and whose desperate, decades-long pursuit of a male heir drives a religious revolution that remakes Britain and rocks the world... and famously leads him through six wives. Then come the brief and brutal reigns of the child king Edward VI and the tragic Catholic Mary I, who swung the country violently between Protestant extremism and fierce Catholic restoration, with a lot of deaths along the way. Finally comes the glittering, powerful rule of Elizabeth I, with her cult of the 'Virgin Queen', whose political genius manages to keep peace and stability for nearly five decades against internal plots and the massive military threat posed by Catholic Europe. And then the whole Tudor dynasty disappears. It's mad, it's bad, and it's utterly entertaining, with enough power struggles, treason and treachery to fill the most outlandish novel. But it's real, every bit of it.

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