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Regarded as yet another threat to the volatile King Henry VII's claim to the throne, Margaret Pole, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and cousin to Elizabeth of York (known as the White Princess who becomes Queen of England upon her marriage to Henry VII)is married off to a steady and kind Lancaster supporter--Sir Richard Pole. For his loyalty, Sir Richard is entrusted with the governorship of Wales, but Margaret's contented daily life is changed forever with the arrival of Arthur, the young Prince of Wales, and his beautiful bride, Katherine of Aragon. Margaret soon becomes a trusted advisor and friend to the honeymooning couple, hiding her own royal connections in service to the Tudors. After the sudden death of Prince Arthur, Katherine leaves for London a widow, and fulfills her deathbed promise to her husband by marrying his brother, Henry VIII. Margaret's world is turned upside down by the surprising summons to court, where she becomes the chief lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine. But this charmed life of the wealthiest and "holiest" woman in England lasts only until the rise of Anne Boleyn, and the dramatic deterioration of the Tudor court. Margaret has to choose whether her allegiance is to the increasingly tyrannical king, or to her beloved queen; to the religion she loves or the theology which serves the new masters. Caught between the old world and the new, Margaret Pole has to find her own way as she carries the knowledge of an old curse on all the Tudors.

Presents a fictionalized account of the final years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who fled Scotland and sought sanctuary in the home of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife, only to find herself imprisoned.

The lives of three girls with royal Tudor blood are forced to deal with the consequences of their parents and their passion for gambling, and while sixteen-year-old Jane Grey is destined to reign over the English monarch, her sister Katherine is skilled at charming all the right people, and Lady Mary Grey strives to protect those she loves despite the cost.

Examines the lives of the three Grey sisters--Mary, Katherine, and Jane--who were named heirs to the throne of England by Henry VIII and his son, Edward, and discusses their individual struggles against the politics of the Tudor court and sexual prejudices.

The story of Lord Byron's daughter, a woman who loved mathematics and who wrote the world's first computer program in the 19th century.

Chronicles the life of Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman who rose from her meager beginnings to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history.