The King's Curse

Synopsis

From the #1 new york times bestselling author behind the acclaimed starz series the white queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting margaret pole and her unique view of king henry viii’s stratospheric rise to power in tudor england. As an heir to the plantagenets, margaret is seen by the king’s mother, the red queen, as a rival to the tudor claim to the throne. She is buried in marriage to a tudor supporter—sir richard pole, governor of wales—and becomes guardian to arthur, the young prince of wales, and his beautiful bride, katherine of aragon.