A secret affair. A severed head.
A dynasty built on blood and luck
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It started with a scandal: a Welsh servant falling in love with a Queen. It ended with the most famous, brutal and glittering dynasty in English history.
They were the Tudors. For three generations, they held England in a grip of iron and gold. But behind the portraits and the palaces lay a family dysfunction that makes Game of Thrones look tame.
Jude's Slice: The Tudors gives you the complete, unvarnished history without the boring bits. Fast-paced and sharp, this is the story of:
- The Lover: Owain, the servant who fathered a dynasty.
- The Usurper: Henry VII, who snatched the crown from a dead king’s head.
- The Monster: Henry VIII, the king whose desperate quest for a son tore apart a country and cost more than just a few heads.
- The Radical: Edward VI, the zealous child-king who purged England of the old faith but whose death left the throne open to some deadly power-plays.
- The Tragic Pawn: Lady Jane Grey, the quiet teenaged scholar whose parents’ ambition put her on the throne for nine days and cost her everything.
- The Fanatic: Mary I, the queen whose brutal restoration of Catholicism earned her the title 'Bloody Mary.'
- The Immortal: Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen who played the world to secure 45 years of peace while slowing dying behind a mask.
No dry academic lectures, just the power struggles, the treason and the treachery that reshaped the world.