Root of the Tudor Rose, Mari Griffith
Root of the Tudor Rose, Mari Griffith
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Root of the Tudor Rose
The Secret Romance That Founded a Dynasty

Author: Mari Griffith

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Unabridged: 12 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2016

Synopsis

1421: Henry V and his young bride, Catherine de Valois, are blessed with the birth of a son - but their happiness is short-lived. Catherine is widowed and when her father, the French king, also dies, her son inherits the crowns of France and England. Just ten months old, Henry VI will need his mother's watchful care to protect him from political intrigue, but Catherine is a foreigner at the English Court. Lonely and vulnerable, she is held in suspicion by those with their own claims to the throne. Only with another outsider, a young Welshman named Owen Tudor, does Catherine find true friendship but their liaison must be kept secret at all costs.

About Mari Griffith

Brought up in South Wales and a fluent Welsh-speaker, Mari Griffith began her career as a singer before moving into radio and television as a presenter of many different types of programmes for children, for adults and for the BBC Television Schools Service. Now retired from broadcasting, Mari at last has time to concentrate on something she has always loved - writing. Her debut novel, Root of the Tudor Rose, was an Amazon best-seller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah

Pleasant. Readable. Rather simplistic or juvenile writing style. Not really history - it's borderline as a biographical novel. For the first half the book couldn't seem to make up it's mind whether it was a spoof or a serious piece of HF: by the end it had decided it was the latter but much of the t......more

Goodreads review by Tony

I could hardly put down Mari Griffith's debut novel Root of the Tudor Rose, which offers us a new slant on the relationship between Queen Catherine of Valois and her love affair with her Welsh servant Owen Tudor. Covering Catherine’s life from her marriage with King Henry V until her untimely death,......more

Goodreads review by Terelyn

The story of Catherine of Valois and Owain Tudor. After Henry V died, leaving a 20 year old wife and infant son, it was assumed by everyone else that she would never remarry -- or even take notice of another man. Instead, she and Owain fall in love, eventually marry and have several children. One of......more

Goodreads review by Stéphanie

3.5 ⭐ RTC......more

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