Three Sisters, Three Queens - Philippa Gregory Audiobook

Written by Philippa Gregory
Read by Bianca Amato
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: August 9, 2016
Duration: 21:09:29

The little-known story of three Tudor women who are united in sisterhood and yet compelled to be rivals when they fulfill their destinies as queens.

As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other’s hearts…

When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined—with Margaret’s younger sister Mary—to a unique sisterhood. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France.

United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret and kills her husband James IV of Scotland. But Margaret’s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son.

Mary steals the widowed Margaret’s proposed husband, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss, and passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king.

“Gregory, famous for her writing about the great English dynasties of the Tudors and the Plantagenets, returns here to the intersection of the two families with the first generation of Tudor princesses. Narrator Bianca Amato, as usual, excels with Gregory’s material. The main character is spoiled and mostly unsympathetic Princess Margaret, but Amato strikes a wonderful balance between showing Margaret’s worst qualities and revealing some humanity and vulnerability. Furthermore, Amato subsumes herself into the story and puts the focus on the world that Gregory is reanimating rather than her narration.”—AudioFile

Personal note—I taught history to high school girls. How to catch them and keep them? Genealogy. They couldn’t wait to copy the charts off the board and followed the political intrigue that followed. “Ferdinand and Isabella had 5 surviving children, 4 were daughters.”