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Dr Lauren Mackay is a Tudor historian and researcher. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys and a regular contributor to BBC History and All About History. She has lectured at the Tower of London, toon meer Hever Castle, Leeds Castle and the National Archives at Kew. toon minder

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With the proliferation of books about the Tudors so comes the companion piece, the book to explain the assumptions. Here Lauren Mackay has focused her work alongside Hilary Mantel's superb fictional trilogy, Wolf Hall etc but actually this would work as a stand-alone piece as it is so comprehensive about the known historical characters and their roles. Mantel freely admits that her novel are fiction and that some dramatic licence has been taken. Here Mackay shows where there may be differences to know history.
As a guide to the society around Henry VIII this is succinct and comprehensive
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