Six Tudor Queens Books in Order

Jane Parker, Lady Rochford, narrates this story of a loveless marriage to George Boleyn and later service to Queen Katheryn Howard, as old grievances and new sympathies draw her into the young queen’s reckless affair and its lethal consequences.

Set after Katharine Parr’s death, this tale centres on baby Mary Seymour and her guardian Elizabeth Aglionby, who must protect the orphaned girl as Thomas Seymour’s enemies close in and the political ground shifts around those linked to the late queen.

The final Six Tudor Queens novel follows Katharine Parr, twice‑widowed when Henry VIII chooses her as his last queen, balancing stepmotherhood, reformist beliefs and a risky second love while trying to survive a court where queens can burn.

Moving between the sixteenth, eighteenth and later centuries, this story follows mourners and antiquarians drawn to Katharine Parr’s tomb at Sudeley, reflecting on how her memory is rediscovered, disturbed and finally honoured as interest in the six queens grows.

This companion to the Katheryn Howard novel follows Margaret Douglas, niece of Henry VIII, from a stormy childhood in Scotland to life at the English court, where her rank makes her a priceless marriage pawn and her own heart leads her into danger.

This novel gives voice to Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife, tracing her neglected upbringing, giddy rise to queenship and the dangerous entanglements that led to accusations of adultery and a desperate fight to save her life.

Sent as an informal envoy to inspect Henry VIII’s prospective bride, Susanna Gilman, a fictional female artist, must judge Anna of Kleve’s looks and character, then wrestle with divided loyalties when the king later demands a way out of the marriage.

Far from court, Anne Bassett prays in the Hungerford family chapel and senses a ghostly presence tied to a dark past. This atmospheric story links her memories of serving Henry VIII’s queens with the grim legend that hangs over the Hungerfords.

In the fourth Six Tudor Queens novel, told from Anna of Kleve’s perspective, Weir imagines the journey from careful diplomatic match to Henry VIII’s disappointment and annulment, then follows Anna’s surprising new life and independence in England.

From the viewpoint of Mary Tudor, later Mary I, this story takes place after Jane Seymour’s death, as Mary mourns the stepmother who helped restore her to favour and confronts the prospect of yet another new queen for her mercurial father.

Told through the eyes of Anne Boleyn’s grandmother, this e‑short looks back on the Boleyn family’s fortunes at Hever, weaving memory, loss and the haunting presence of Anne’s ghost into a quiet meditation on love and ambition.

A companion story to Anne Boleyn’s novel, this tale sees a teenage Anne at the glittering French court, where a dance with the charming Philippe du Moulin becomes her first lesson in flirtation, desire and the dangerous game of courtly love.

This third Six Tudor Queens novel follows Jane Seymour from quiet country gentlewoman to Henry VIII’s third wife, exploring her family loyalties, her efforts to reunite the king with his daughters and the heavy cost of becoming mother to his heir.

In this modern‑set e‑short, a historian leading a tour of the Tower of London finds the boundary between past and present blurring, as her admiration for Anne Boleyn and the site’s dark history sparks an unsettling, possibly supernatural encounter.

Set between the first two Six Tudor Queens novels, this story follows Margery Otwell, a gentlewoman drawn into Queen Katherine of Aragon’s household and then into Anne Boleyn’s rise, whose own choices and passions become entangled with the queens she serves.

In the second Six Tudor Queens novel, Anne Boleyn narrates her rise from lady‑in‑waiting to Henry VIII’s second wife, her struggle to bear a son and the jealousies and court factions that finally send her to the scaffold.

A short companion piece in which Weir reflects on how she researched and wrote the Six Tudor Queens novels, discussing sources, choices and the challenges of bringing Henry VIII’s wives to life on the page.

Book one in the Six Tudor Queens series, this novel tells Katherine of Aragon’s story in her own voice, from Spanish princess and Henry’s first beloved wife to divorced queen fighting to keep her marriage, faith and daughter’s rights.

This e‑short story imagines the inner life of Prince Arthur, Henry VIII’s elder brother, as he grows up under the weight of expectation, faces an arranged marriage to Catherine of Aragon and senses that his fragile health may change England’s future.