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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2003

      This edition published by Harper 2017

      Copyright © Philippa Gregory Ltd 2003

      Cover design and illustration: Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

      Cover image © Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy (portrait of Mary I of England, ca (1521-1525). Artist: Horenbout, Lucas 1490/95-1544).

      Philippa Gregory asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007147298

      Ebook Edition © December 2016 ISBN: 9780007370153

      Version: 2017-01-23

       Dedication

       For Anthony

      The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545, artist unknown. Reproduced courtesy of The Royal Collection © HM Queen Elizabeth II.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Summer 1548

Winter 1552–53

Spring 1553

Summer 1553

Autumn 1553

       Winter 1553

       Winter 1554

       Spring 1554

       Summer 1554

       Autumn 1554

       Winter 1554–55

       Spring 1555

       Spring–Summer 1555

       Autumn 1555

       Winter 1555

       Spring 1556

       Summer 1556

       Autumn 1556

       Winter 1556–57

       Spring 1557

       Summer 1557

       Winter 1557–58

       Spring 1558

       Summer 1558

       Autumn 1558

       Winter 1558

       Author’s Note

       Discover More of Philippa Gregory’s Tudor Novels

       Gardens for The Gambia

       About the Author

       Also by Philippa Gregory

       About the Publisher

      

       Summer 1548

      The girl, giggling and over-excited, was running in the sunlit garden, running away from her stepfather, but not so fast that he could not catch her. Her stepmother, seated in an arbour with Rosamund roses in bud all around her, caught sight of the fourteen-year-old girl and the handsome

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