9 best-selling tudor period books like The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival by Kate Williams

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The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

By: Kate Williams

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria , a new history of Mary Queen…

If you liked the tudor period plot in The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival by Kate Williams , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

By: Eleanor Herman

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They s… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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2. Mary Queen of Scots

By: Antonia Fraser

3.99

Format: 568 pages, Paperback

More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic & controv… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • scotland
  • tudor period
"Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive."

-Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots

"It is often said that a secure childhood makes the best foundation for a happy life. In marked contrast to her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart enjoyed an exceptionally cosseted youth. It is left …"

-Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots

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3. The Winter Crown (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2)

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.23

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

It is the winter of 1154 and Eleanor, Queen of England, is biding her time. While her husband King … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • british literature
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4. The King's Bed: Ambition and Intimacy in the Court of Charles II

By: Don Jordan , None

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anythin… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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5. The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

By: G.J. Meyer

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the first time in decades, here, in a single volume, is a fresh look at the fabled Tudor dynast… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • tudor period
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6. Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

By: Nicola Tallis

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the hea… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period

7. Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

By: Gareth Russell

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretati… read more

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8. The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

By: Alison Weir

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a Queen, h… read more

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9. The Private Lives of the Tudors

By: Tracy Borman

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth I The Tudor monarchs were cons… read more

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10. A Realm Divided: England in 1215

By: Dan Jones

3.93

Format: 300 pages,

1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history … read more

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11. Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

By: Sarah Gristwood

4.28

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her grandda… read more

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12. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

By: Jane Dunn

3.67

Format: None pages,

This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots… read more

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13. Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart

By: John Guy

3.34

Format: None pages,

A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the lead… read more

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14. The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens

By: Roland Hui

3.81

Format: None pages,

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15. The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

By: Leanda de Lisle

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

#NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Inspiration for Philippa Gregory's 2017 novel The Last Tudor and for El… read more

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16. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke

4.28

Format: 120 pages,

'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more

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17. Kings and Queens of England

By: Antonia Fraser

3.76

Format: 85 pages,

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18. Queen Victoria's Children

By: John van der Kiste

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different … read more

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19. The Lady Elizabeth

By: Alison Weir

4.47

Format: None pages,

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting… read more

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20. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

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  • biography
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  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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21. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. The Last White Rose (Tudor Rose #1)

By: Alison Weir

4.09

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir explores the life of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth, … read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • tudor period
  • european history
  • audiobook
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23. The Passionate Tudor: A Novel of Queen Mary I

By: Alison Weir

4.02

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic and poig… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • tudor period
  • british literature
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24. Blood, Fire and Gold

By: Estelle Paranque

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biogr… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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25. The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

By: Kate Williams

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria , a new history of Mary Queen… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • scotland
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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26. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

By: Tracy Borman

4.26

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • tudor period
  • audiobook
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27. Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II

By: Tracy Borman

4.30

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King H… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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28. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By: Geoffrey Parker

4.13

Format: 737 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the ruler of the world’s f… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
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29. The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady

By: Heath Hardage Lee

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A new, revolutionary look into the brilliant life of Pat Nixon.In America’s collective consciousnes… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Figurine

By: Victoria Hislop

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more

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3.85

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