The Queen’s Sorrow

Name: The Queen’s Sorrow
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)

Suzannah Dunn

Sep 2008 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

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A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused – the tragedy of Mary Tudor.

These are desperate times for Mary Tudor. As England’s first ruling queen, her joy should be complete when she marries Philip, the dashing Prince of Spain. But despite her ardent devotion, he’s making it painfully obvious that he cares little for his new wife – and her struggle to produce an heir only makes him colder towards him. Lonely and depressed, Mary begins to vent her anguish on her people – and England becomes a place of cruelty, persecution and fear.

Mary’s terrible fall from grace is seen through the eyes of Rafael, a Spanish sundial maker who is part of the Prince’s flamboyant entourage. He becomes the one person that she trusts, but his life – and new-found love – will be caught in the chaos that follows...

A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused – the tragedy of Mary Tudor. These are desperate times for Mary Tudor. As England’s first ruling queen, her joy should be complete when she marries Philip, the dashing Prince of Spain. But despite her ardent devotion, he’s making it painfu...

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1 review

Ringli

May 9, 2026

This book has THEE WORST ending! It's well written, and you get sucked into the story. Then after an entire book of build up, it just . . . ends. Like the Sopranos. And at a time where all of this stuff is going on, and you don't know what has happened (except that the main character's lady love has been arrested). Then suddenly the book just stops! Like she ran out of ideas and just gave up on it. The book is represented as being about Queen Mary I, but it's not at all. She comes into the story very briefly, a couple of times, and that's it. The entire story is about a Spanish man who's in England with Philip's retinue. If I had known how abruptly - and with no explanation or resolving of anything! - the story was going to 'end', I never would have read it.

About the author

Suzannah Dunn is the author of nine previous books of fiction: 'Darker Days Than Usual’, 'Blood Sugar', 'Past Caring', ‘Venus Flaring', 'Quite Contrary', 'Tenterhooks', 'Commencing Our Descent', 'Queen of Subtleties' and ‘The Sixth Wife’. Her most recent novel is ‘The Confession of Katherine Howard’. She lives in Shropshire.

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