Mary Boleyn, 'the infamous other Boleyn girl', began her court career as the mistress of the king of France. François I of France would later call her 'The Great Prostitute' and the slur stuck. Mary would emerge the sole survivor of a family torn apart by lust and ambition, and it is in Mary and her progeny that the Boleyn legacy rests.

Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress

Divorced at ten, a mother at thirteen and three times a widow. The extraordinary true story of the ‘Red Queen’, Lady Margaret Beaufort, matriarch of the Tudors.

Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors.

In Bed with the Tudors

Amberley Publishing is the fastest-growing history publisher in the UK. Based in the Cotswolds, Amberley provides a fresh approach to local and specialist history publishing, with a 2010 publishing programme of 400 new titles including 150 in the full-colour Through Time series.

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