House of Treason

King-makers. Conspirators. Criminals. Nobles. Seducers.

The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard.

But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay.

This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.

“"The scholarship of this book is meticulous, Hutchinson provides an across-the-spectrum grand slam portrait of the second Tudor monarch. No one writing about Henry VIII in the future will be able to ignore this magnificent book."”

A remarkable story of a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall. - HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER

A riveting book - CATHOLIC HERALD

A gruesome and engaging history - SUNDAY BUSINESS POST

Gripping and gruesome - BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH

Robert Hutchinson was Defence Correspondent for the Press Association from 1976 to 1983 before moving to Jane's Information Group to launch Jane's Defence Weekly. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a contributing author to The Archaelogy of the Reformation. He is the author of LAST DAYS OF HENRY VIII, ELIZABETH'S SPY MASTER and THOMAS CROMWELL. He was appointed OBE in the 2008 New Year's Honours List.

King-makers. Conspirators. Criminals. Nobles. Seducers.The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard.But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay.This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.

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