Murder Most Royal
Novel by Eleanor Hibbert (as Jean Plaidy)
Murder Most Royal (a.k.a. The King's Pleasure) (1949) is an historical fiction novel by Jean Plaidy.
The novel focuses on two of Henry VIII's wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. It begins with Anne as a young woman leaving for Brussels, then returning to England; her rise to power in the English court; her marriage to Henry VIII as his second wife; and her subsequent execution. In parallel, the life of Catherine Howard, Anne's first cousin, is also recounted. She becomes Henry VIII's fifth wife, but, after claims of adultery, is also executed.
Characters
- Anne Boleyn
- Catherine Howard
- Henry VIII
- Thomas Wolsey
- Thomas Cromwell
- Catherine of Aragon
- Anne of Cleves
- Jane Seymour
- George Boleyn
- Elizabeth Boleyn
- Thomas Boleyn
- Jane Parker
- Agnes Howard
- Thomas Howard
- Mark Smeaton
- Thomas Culpepper
- Henry Mannox
References
See also
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- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (father)
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (mother)
- George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (brother)
- Mary Boleyn (sister)
- Elizabeth I (daughter)
- Henry VIII (husband)
- Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland (betrothed)
- Lady Margaret Butler (paternal grandmother)
- William Boleyn (paternal grandfather)
- Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (maternal grandmother)
- Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (maternal grandfather)
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn (aunt)
- Joyce Culpeper (aunt)
- James Boleyn (uncle)
- Catherine Howard (cousin)
- Jane Boleyn (sister-in-law)
- Geoffrey Boleyn (great grandfather)
- George Boleyn (priest)
- Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (great great grandfather)
- Anna Boleyn (1920)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
- Anna Bolena (1830 opera)
- Anne Boleyn (2010 play)
- Murder Most Royal (1949)
- Doomed Queen Anne (2002)
- Coronation
- Cultural depictions
- O Death Rock Me Asleep (poem)
- "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" (1934 song)
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