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Title: What a Load of Royal Rubbish!
Review: It wasn't the historical background that irritated me, that was quite well researched and believable in its rendering of daily life in Tudor England. What bugged the crap out of me was the characters and their motivations. The overall tone of this book was that of a particularly bad romance novel. Henry VIII's most dominant trait was selfishness, both as a King and a man, and yet here we see him portrayed as a tender and devoted lover. I was near to gagging before I was half way through this book. It takes an awfully bad book to make me not finish it, but I came close to launching this one out the window. It went to the book exchange so fast that Phillippa Gregory's head is probably still spinning.
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