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For all the tabloid fuss and docudramas, the messy love lives of today’s British royals seem like pallid reflections of monarchical scandals past. The personalities are smaller, the stakes so much ...
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance. Card one, clockwise from top: Henry VIII; Mary I; Queen Elizabeth I. Card ...
The Tudors in Love. By Sarah Gristwood. St Martin’s Press; 400 pages; $29.99. Oneworld Publications; £20 As “The Edifying Book of Erotic Chess” shows, chess once carried a more thrilling charge than ...