{"product_id":"9781439191583","title":"Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England","description":"It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap—a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England’s throne. For many he remained a usurper, a false king. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Henry had a crucial asset: his queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Queen Elizabeth was a member of the House of York. Henry himself was from the House of Lancaster, so between them they united the warring parties that had fought the bloody century-long Wars of the Roses. Now their older son, Arthur, was about to marry a Spanish princess. On a cold November day sixteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrived in London for a wedding that would mark a triumphal moment in Henry’s reign. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkable book, Thomas Penn re-creates the story of the tragic, magnetic Henry VII—a controlling, paranoid, avaricious monarch who was entering the most perilous years of his long reign. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRich with drama and insight, \u003ci\u003eWinter King \u003c\/i\u003eis an astonishing story of pageantry, treachery, intrigue and incident—and the fraught, dangerous birth of Tudor England.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140013506800,"sku":"9781439191583","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439191583_p0.jpg?v=1763756257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439191583","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}