The author of THE BOLEYNS examines the lives and times of three of Henry VIII's 'other' women - his mother and two sisters.

Henry VIII's relationships with women in his adult life famously did not go well. He was the Tudor king who had six wives, two of which he murdered. But what of the three powerful Tudor women that surrounded Henry VIII in his early life? The ones that saw him before the marriages, before the beheadings, before the tyranny? One was Queen of England, one was Queen of Scotland, and the other was Queen of France - but for Henry VIII these women were his mother and two sisters. Henry's Roses explores the life of these three women, shining a spotlight and telling the story of how their fate was entwined with the most infamous monarch of them all.