I’ve read a lot of Tudor fiction books but haven’t so far come across one where Bessie Blount was the central character. I enjoyed Diane Haeger’s book about Henry VIII’s sister Mary, The Secret Bride: In The Court of Henry VIII, and so I was anxious to see how she pulled off a story about [...]

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