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The Story of King Henry VII
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Copyright © 1982 by Jean Plaidy
Reader’s Group Guide copyright © 2008 by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Excerpt from Katharine of Aragon, published in 1968 by Robert Hale Limited, London, and in 2005 by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Crown Reads colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Originally published as Uneasy Lies the Head in hardcover in Great Britain by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1982 and subsequently published in slightly different form by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, in 1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993.
[Uneasy lies the head]
To hold the crown : the story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York / Jean Plaidy. —1st Three Rivers Press ed.
1. Henry VII, King of England, 1457–1509—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—Kings and rulers—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6015.I3U5 2008
823’.914—dc22 2008011068
eISBN: 978-0-307-45017-3
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Epigraph
Genealogy
The Birth of a Prince
The Baker’s Boy
Coronation
The Death of a Queen
Perkin
Henry Duke of York
The Scottish Court
Tyburn and Tower Hill
The Spanish Princess
The Bride and the Widow
The Princes in the Tower
Birth and Death
The Search for a Queen
The Prince Discovers His Conscience
Shipwreck
The End of a Reign
King Henry the Eighth
Bibliography
A Reader’s Group Guide
An Excerpt from Katharine of Aragon
About the Author
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