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The Last Tudor
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
'How long do I have?' I force a laugh.
'Not long,' he says very quietly. 'They have confirmed your sentence of death. You are to be beheaded tomorrow. We don't have long at all.'
Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. Using her position as cousin to the deceased king, her father and his conspirators put her on the throne ahead of the king's half sister Mary, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her crown and locked Jane in the Tower. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block. There Jane turned her father's greedy, failed grab for power into her own brave and tragic martyrdom.
'Learn you to die' is the advice that Jane gives in a letter to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and find love. But her lineage makes her a threat to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and, when Mary dies, to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir before she does. So when Katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy, she, too, must go to the Tower.
'Farewell, my sister,' writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary finds it easy to keep secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After watching her sisters defy the queen, Mary is aware of her own perilous position as a possible heir to the throne. But she is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to risk her life in matching wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Elizabeth.
Read by Bianca Amato, narrator of Three Sisters, Three Queens and The Taming of the Queen.
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- Hannah Devoy
- 24-04-19
Very enjoyable and easy to listen to
I am generally very interested in the tudors so perhaps I was predisposed to like this book. When I decided to listen to it I had been looking for a book with a thought provoking story, without being too much of a challenge and it far exceeded this brief. It made my daily commute so much more enjoyable and at the same time, I learnt about a significant family in history who have been all but hidden and realised a different side to queen Elizabeth. I am sad it is over!
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- Val Webb
- 25-05-18
The Last Tudor
A brilliant insight into the Tudor court and Elizabeth I's selfish rule over England, her court and her subjects.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-06-19
Very informative about Elizabeth I
The text is superbly researched, and the bits that are missing in history, imagined.
But I had to stop listening, just so depressing. Nothing good happens in this book.
It is beautifully read (apart from a few strange slips; such as pronouncing winding sheet like the wind that blows and not a road that winds... who woildn't know that?).
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- Mark Peake
- 28-12-22
Depressing
Although I was aware of the story, the narrator had the most depressing voice, she truly made you a part of the sisters’ misery. This was a good thing I guess because it showed her acting skills. The love the two sisters bore their husbands was not presented in a happy way even at the start which was a shame.
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- Nancy
- 24-08-17
Fantastic!
Another wonderful audiobook from Philippa. Bianca's narration is great and I just love Philippa's stories.
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- Marilyn
- 18-04-19
The last tudor
The last tudor, such enthralling book, found it hard to put down, a great read
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- Traveller2
- 29-08-19
Fantastic book!
Interesting perspective for a book, I really enjoyed how it developed through a family starting with the eldest sibling and progressing to to youngest and provided insight into the lives of people in this time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-01-18
Another Tudor masterpiece
The Last Tudor is a fascinating tale of three Tudors that I knew little about. Listening in you can’t help but be drawn into the sisters’ world and feel their suffering at the hands of a tyrant Queen. If you think Queen Elizabeth I is our best monarch this will be an eye opener. Another Gregory masterpiece.
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- S.J
- 25-01-18
An Emotional experience
This book was truely amazing and had inspired me to look further into the history of the Grey sisters. It's a heartbreaking tale full of love and the way it is separated into 3 books is great, although you miss the last character as it moves onto the next. This story has given me affection for a trio I previously knew very little of and I want to thank Philippa Gregory for that.
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- 19-08-18
Another interesting adaption
another great read from Philippa and some more lesser know female characters from history. narration was good too
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