The Last Tudor

Elizabeth’s royal cousin Jane Grey is faced with the choice of death or denying her faith after being forced onto the throne of England. It is left to Elizabeth to measure the threat posed to her by the remaining Grey girls – the famous beauty Katherine Grey and her sister, a little person, Mary. Alternately befriended and snubbed, the two girls thrive as the queen’s companions, learning to judge her moods and avoid her temper tantrums. But they each have a secret: Katherine is in love with an heir to the great family Seymour, and Mary with the queen’s sergeant porter. They come to realise that Elizabeth will never allow either of them to marry for fear of a Tudor heir to the throne.Their martyred sister’s advice is clear. ‘Learn you to die,’ Jane wrote in her famous letter to Katherine. But Jane’s tragic story and her fatal choice is only the beginning for her two beloved sisters …

'Nobody does dynastic history like Gregory.' -- Booklist
'The queen of royal fiction.' -- USA Today
‘A master storyteller … Gregory captures the intrigue and suspense of life at the Tudor court in vivid detail.' -- The Daily Express

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl which was made into a TV drama, and a major film. Now, six novels later, she is looking at the family that preceded the Tudors: the magnificent Plantaganets, a family of complex rivalries, loves, and hatreds. She lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Bianca Amato is a South African actress known for her portrayal of Philippa De Villiers in the South African soap opera Isidingo: The Need (1999). She went on to perform on stage and American television, appearing in Sex and the City, The Good Wife and The Big C. Amato has narrated over 50 audiobooks, and is the winner of five AudioFile Earphones Awards and Audies for her performances of Listening for Lions and The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontë.

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