‘A great test is coming, my love … You will be stretched until you think you might break in two.’ 

Mary Tudor’s world is turned upside-down when her father, Henry the Eighth, declares his marriage to her mother is over and that Mary isn’t really his child. How can he do such a thing? Banished from court and separated from her beloved mother, Mary realises her family will never be as she hoped.

Alone for the first time in her life, Mary must fight for what is rightfully hers. Despite what anyone says, she will always be a princess. It is in her blood. But without her fierce mother by her side, will Mary find the strength? Is there anyone Mary can trust? And how will she survive?

Popular historian Lucy Worsley tells the thrilling, dramatic and touching story of Henry the Eighth and Catherine of Aragon’s divorce as you’ve never heard it before