It’s one viewpoint too many for the reader to digest.As with all Plaidy novels, “Murder Most Royal” features a lot of repeated info and dry facts. The section on Thomas Moor and his family, for example, should’ve been cut. I skipped several tedious paragraphs that were doing nothing to move the story along – in fact, they were dragging it down. The pace often drags, and little action occurs.“Murder Most Royal” has some good moments, hence my rating it two stars instead of one, but these high points are few and far between in this slow-paced novel. Pages: 44 Language: English Pages: 44.Like with the Plantagenet saga, the author attempts to pack many years’ worth of history from numerous viewpoints into one volume, which results in a lot of bland scenes that should’ve been dramatized. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. But the new Queen Anne is not loved by the people, and it is only a matter of time before Henry's patience runs out." Packed weight 480gms.
Before long, Henry is lured away from his stale marriage to Katharine of Aragon. So when Anne returns to the English court of Henry VIII, it is the King who is led a dance by this mysterious young beauty. Unlike Mary, Anne refuses to become even a King's mistress. But whilst Anne's ambitions are high, she has learned from her sister's unfortunate reputation. SYNOPSIS: "At the decadent French court of King Francois, the young Anne Boleyn grows into an enigmatic and striking woman, a temptation to many courtiers. The covers are showing some slight signs of storage wear to the extremities and there is a one inch crease across the bottom left hand corner of the rear cover. (The title was first published in 1949 in hardback and then in 1966 in paperback). This is a mass marketpaperback with a 7 to 10 number sequence indicating a 7th printing of this edition.
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