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Posted July 3, 2009 Comments(0)

If you love the Tudors, why not try these excellent movies in this handy 2 volume set:

Anne of the Thousand Days, Genvieve Bujold, Richard Burton

Mary Queen of Scots, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton

Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots 2 DVD set from Amazon

Posted April 15, 2009 Comments(0)

The Tudors - The Complete First Season

The Tudors - The Complete Second Season

The Tudors - Season 3

Posted April 13, 2009 Comments(0)

The Faithful Heart

Sorcha MacMurrough

Tudor Ireland, 1537

Who has murdered Morgana Maguire’s brother, poisoned her father, and stolen most of her clan’s ships? There are just a few of the pressing questions the novice nun must find answers to if she and her one true love Ruairc MacMahon are ever to find happiness in each other’s arms.

Morgana broke off her engagement to the only man she ever loved when her brother was murdered, convinced that her fiance had had betrayed them all. Now, two years later, Ruairc returns to Donegal at the request of Morgana’s father, who wants to make peace with them both before he dies.

In the time that’s passed since the murder, Ruairc is the only one who does not appear to have profited from the young man’s death in any way. In fact, his life has been a living hell.

Ruairc has never loved anyone but the fiery woman with hair like living flame. Forced to earn a living after being banished from his clan for a murder he did not commit, Ruairc has had to dance attendance upon the powerful and ambitious English courtiers in Dublin.

Ruairc is overjoyed to be summoned back to the Maguire lands to be with Morgana again, despite the nest of murdeous interigue he is walking right back into. He would brave the gate of Hell itself if it meant winning Morgana for his wife. If only he could convince her he loves her for herself alone, not her title, lands or wealth.

Despite her suspicions, Morgana bonds with Ruairc, as her most trusted ally and lover too, the only anchor in her swirling world. As their enemies surround him and brother fights brother for clan supremacy, the sensual couple can barely keep their heads above water as the shifting quicksands of loyalty and allegiance threaten to drag them under.

Only Morgana’s greatest ship, The Faithful Heart, stands between the Maguire and MacMahon clans and the destruction of their entire region at the hands of the fanatical, power hungry traitors in their midsts.

Set against the backdrop of Tudor power politics and Reformation during the reign of Henry VIII, and the rebellion of the great Irish leader Silken Thomas, Morgana and Ruairc must fight not only to win each other’s love, but to protect all of Ireland from civil war and foreign invasion.

The Faithful Heart

Word Count: 90,000

Rating: Moderately sensual.

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Posted May 5, 2008 Comments(0)

The Sea of Love

Sorcha MacMurrough

Wrongfully accused of murder, Aidanna O’Flaherty’s only ally against her evil brother-in-law Donal is the dashing English-bred aristocrat Declan Burke. Saving him from certain death, Aidanna and Declan hide away on her secluded private island, where the passion between them grows until it can no longer be denied.

But the world beyond their magical cove is spinning out of control as the aging King Henry VIII seeks to cling to his power even as death approaches. Declan’s powerful patron The Duke of Norfolk is impatient for his own chance to rule, and involves Declan in a monstrous conspiracy.

Declan soon finds himself in the Tower condemned to death. Aidanna must undertake an epic struggle to not only save Declan, but expose her true enemies if she is ever to save her clan from the ambitious English lords who want to carve up all of Ireland for themselves, and the Continental powers who see the old king dying and want to bring about a new Catholic world order.

Aidanna and Declan must race against time to prevent all they love from being swept aside in a thunderous tide of foreign invasion.

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The Sea Of Love

Posted March 22, 2008 Comments(0)

Introduction to the Tudor Period

The Tudors’ reigns span from the death of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and the accession of Henry VII to the throne as a result, through the reigns of Henry VIII, and his three children in succession, Edward VI, Mary, and finally Elizabeth I.

Each child was born to a different one of Henry’s hapless wives, Jane Seymour, Katharine of Aragon, and Anne Boleyn respectively.

Katharine of Aragon was a member of the powerful royal house of Spain, which also owned the Netherlands at that time, and was linked with the Holy Roman Empire. Henry’s attempted annulment and finally divorce from Katharine of Aragon earned him and England lifelong enmity from Spain, culminating eventually in the Spanish Armada of 1588.

Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second queen, the first to be beheaded. She was powerful and ambitious, but a series of miscarriages, and Henry’s eye turning to Jane Seymour left her out of favor and disposable.

Jane Seymour died as a result of giving birth to his only legitimate son.

Henry’s other three wives were Anne of Cleves (divorced), Katherine Howard (cousin of Anne Boleyn, also beheaded), and Katherine Parr, who survived him.

Elizabeth I died childless, so that the English throne passed, ironically, to the only child of her greatest rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, herself part of the Tudor lineage through Henry VIII’s sister Margaret.

Mary’s son James I acceded to the throne in 1603, thus heralding the ill-fated Stuart line of kings, which didn’t not last much longer into the 17th and the 18th century than the Tudors had from the 15th to the 16th.

The Tudors lived in tumultuous times. Henry VIII had to deal with his many wives and the ‘great question’ of his divorce so he could remarry and try to beget legitmate sons to secure the line of succession, but his father had been constantly beset by usurpers wanting to take the throne from the Tudor line.

After Henry’s death, the question of who would succeed him was by no means certain. And long before Henry even looked as though he would die, there were plots afoot to wrest power from him, on the pretext of religion, or due to simply blind ambition.

This is a most exciting and unpredictable period of time, the best of times, the worst of times, the most thrilling time to fall in love…

Posted March 18, 2008 Comments(0)