Jean Plaidy - To Hold the Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 1982 by Jean Plaidy

Reader’s Group Guide copyright © 2008 by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpt from Katharine of Aragon, published in 1968 by Robert Hale Limited, London, and in 2005 by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published as Uneasy Lies the Head in hardcover in Great Britain by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1982 and subsequently published in slightly different form by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, in 1984.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993.

[Uneasy lies the head]

To hold the crown : the story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York / Jean Plaidy. —1st Three Rivers Press ed.

1. Henry VII, King of England, 1457–1509—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—Kings and rulers—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6015.I3U5 2008

823’.914—dc22 2008011068

eISBN: 978-0-307-45017-3

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