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Traitors of the Tower (Quick Reads)

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Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Published
2010
  • Traitors
  • Beheading
  • Biography
  • History
  • Great britain, biography
  • Executions and executioners

More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death?

Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. Through her vivid writing, Alison Weir brings history alive.