Six Tudor Queens - Alison Weir. Any good?

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Wondering if they might be a good chaser to the Wolf Hall trilogy?

They are amazing. I loved them, especially the books about the queens I knew least about. Absolutely recommend. Couldn't stop thinking about the end of the Anne Boleyn book for ages!

I hope so, I've just ordered the whole set and they are due to be delivered any day now! I have enjoyed other books by Alison Weir though and the set was a decent price on books 2 doors so I just went for it, not that I take much persuading when it comes to book buying 😆

Yes!

Completely recommend them - and recommend every single one of the books. Jane Seymour and Katherine Howard were my favourites.

Yes, they are good-there's a lot of imagining but most of it slides down easily, apart from some vivid imagining in the one that deals with with Anne of Cleves.

Has anyone read her non-fiction? They are excellent. I still think about, The Lady in the Tower. It deals with the last days of Anne Boleyn and she guides the reader through all the complicated machinations brilliantly.

I really enjoyed the series and read them spaced out over a couple of years.
The Lady in the Tower sounds interesting too.

I've been reading them for a while, along with the Henry 8ths mother one. They are good and I am going to finish the series, currently on Catherine Howard. I have taken breaks, as the first three all existed at the same time, so got a bit repetitive. Very interesting though.

They’re really good, and the series ends with one written from Henry’s point of view.

I've just finished reading "The Haunted Queen", the Jane Seymour book in the series. I was very disappointed, it's the first book by Alison Weir that I've read and it's put me off reading more books by her. It just didn't feel very real to me and I didn't get the feel of the Court of Henry Eighth in the way that I did with Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, although I appreciate that there is very little historical material about Jane Seymour and her character, for Alison Weir to work with.

Obviously very far back and from then to now who knows what skeletons are in the cupboard etc

But I've been researching my family tree and using Ancestry and other places and William Kingston comes up as a many times great grandfather of mine .
He was keeper ( comptroller ) of the tower of London and was at the time / had involvement in a few on Henry's wife's whilst they were there.

Will add my family were from Gloucestershire and that was where he was born so who knows lol.