If all history books were written like this, I would not have ditched the subject after O'Grade at school! Wow, is all I can say!

The book traces the lives, its zeniths and nadirs of the Grey sisters: Lady Jane, Lady Catherine and Lady Mary. It is a book of avarice, greed, conspiracies, injustices and executions, as well as it demonstrating determination in two female heirs to the throne, in the days when females were very much looked down on as being the weaker sex.

The historical figures in the book were very well described; one could not help but feel sorry for the child King Edward VI, horror at the mass executions during the reign of Queen Mary ("Bloody Mary"), and shock at the injustices and cruelty of Queen Elizabeth I in imprisoning Katherine and Mary (and their husbands) as they were rivals to her position as Queen. In a nutshell, the Tudors were a bit "wild"!

I have loved reading this book, and am now so intrigued about the Tudors, and even previous monarchs, I am off to read some more!