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Elizabeth Fremantle

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As a child I was the one in the corner with my nose in a book who wanted to be a writer, but with the onset of a turbulent adolescence I left school, under a cloud, aged fifteen with nothing more than a fistful of O Levels and a hapless sense that things would somehow work themselves out. Eventually, after working in various dodgy dives – I've served grey scrambled eggs to squaddies at 5.30am; I've served vintage champagne to raucous hoorays; I've pulled pints for all and sundry – I managed to find myself, much in the way Forrest Gump always landed on his feet, working as a dogsbody on a fashion magazine. Over a decade, I worked for titles such as Vogue, Elle and The Sunday Times and contributed to many others. Marriage took me to Paris, a ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 6,580 ratings · 1,126 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Queen's Gambit (The Tudor Trilogy, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 3,509 ratings — published 2012 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisters of Treason (The Tudor Trilogy, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 1,917 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Watch the Lady (The Tudor Trilogy, #3) 3.89 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Glass Tower 3.76 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen's Gambit Free 1st Chapter 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poison Bed: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mechanics' Institute Review: New Stories from Birkbeck: 13 by Kit de Waal (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Fremantle (Goodreads Author) , Nadim Safdar 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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JAMES I&IV "I desire only to live in this world for your sake, and that I had rather live banished in any part of the earth with you than live a sorrowful widow's life without you. And so God bless you, my sweet child and wife, and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your dear dad and husband."
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“Katherine and the children have made paper boats and are floating them on the moat to see which one stays up the longest, contriving always that Edward’s should be the winner. He is learning from an early age that the world conspires magically to favor him. After all, he will be King one day and that is the way of things for kings.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

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“I remember Maman once saying of the old Queen that power corrupts. I have thought much on it and it seems to me that it is not power that corrupts, but the fear of its loss," she pauses with a sigh. After all Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were just girls once, not so different from my sisters, or any other girls, for the that matter. It is fear that changed them.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

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“What are we if we are not words?”
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Which book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like as our Group Read in May, 2016?

In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The Visitor's Companion to the Palaces, Castles & Houses Associated with Henry VIII's Iconic Queens by Sarah Morris

18 votes, 23.7%

The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

12 votes, 15.8%

The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson

8 votes, 10.5%

Royal Inheritance by Kate Emerson

7 votes, 9.2%

I, Jane by Diane Haeger

5 votes, 6.6%

Legacy by Susan Kay

5 votes, 6.6%

Charles Brandon: Henry VIII's Closest Friend by Steven Gunn

5 votes, 6.6%

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton

5 votes, 6.6%

Watch the Lady by Elizabeth Fremantle

3 votes, 3.9%

Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Margaret Campbell Barnes

2 votes, 2.6%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

2 votes, 2.6%

The Light in the Labyrinth by Wendy J. Dunn

2 votes, 2.6%

The Colours of Our Petals by Aled Davies

1 vote, 1.3%

Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey by Adrienne Dillard

1 vote, 1.3%

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