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Best-selling author of 'The Other Boleyn, Philippa Gregory chats to Amol about her new book 'The Last Tudor', the final novel in her Tudor Series, and a story of betrayal and divided loyalties in the battle for the throne of England,

Using her position as cousin to the dead Edward VI, 17 year-old Protestant Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen by her father and his co-conspirators ahead of the late King's Catholic half-sister, Mary. But Mary quickly musters an army, claims her crown and locks Queen of Nine Days Jane in the Tower. When Jane refuses to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sends her to the executioner's block. On Mary's death, her half-sister Elizabeth succeeds to the throne and Elizabeth will not allow Jane's sister Katherine to marry and produce a potential royal heir. But Katherine's secret marriage is revealed by her pregnancy and she meets the same fate as Jane. The youngest Grey sister, Mary, is determined to command her own destiny and be the last Tudor to risk her life in matching her wits with her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Elizabeth...

Philippa is the author of many bestselling novels and is a recognised authority on women's history. Her Cousins' War novels, reaching their dramatic conclusion with The King's Curse, were the basis for the highly successful 麻豆约拍 series, The White Queen.