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Goodreads asked Lucy Lancaster:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Lucy Lancaster It's all Allison Weir's fault. I read her collective biographies of Henry VIII's wives and Henry VIII's children back-to-back, and I wondered what might have become of them if they didn't have the ominous cloud of Henry casting shadows on all of them. Hence the idea of killing Henry off rather earlier than in real life...

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