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by To Hold the Crown: The Story of King Henry VII;Elizabeth of York


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  To Hold the Crown

  The Story of King Henry VII

  and Elizabeth of York

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  Uneasy Lies the Head

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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.

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  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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  Copyright

 

 

 


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