In the Shadow of the Crown

Jean Plaidy was one of the most beloved and successful historical novelists of the 20th century. In Spring, 2003, Three Rivers Press began publishing a series of 10 reissues of Plaidy's most popular novels. Their success (more than 72,500 copies of the first four books in print) exceeded all expecta [...]
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Jean Plaidy was one of the most beloved and successful historical novelists of the 20th century. In Spring, 2003, Three Rivers Press began publishing a series of 10 reissues of Plaidy's most popular novels. Their success (more than 72,500 copies of the first four books in print) exceeded all expectations and whetted the appetite of historical fiction readers for more novels from this master of the genre. Here, then, art the fifth and sixth novels in the series. When Princess Mary ascends the throne from which her father, Henry VIII, broke with the Pope, she feels that God is granting her an opportunity to make England a Roman Catholic country once more. Swayed by her fanatical advisors and her own religious fervor, Mary makes horrific examples of those who fail to embrace the Church, earning her the dark sobriquet "Bloody Mary."