В тени королев: истории из жизни двора Тюдоров

Istorii͡a pishetsi͡a ne tolʹko na poli͡akh srazheniĭ. Zachastui͡u vazhnye reshenii͡a prinimai͡utsi͡a v tikhikh dvort͡sovykh pokoi͡akh, gde teni͡ami skolʹzi͡at priblizhennye silʹnykh mira sego, peresheptyvai͡asʹ, podgli͡adyvai͡a, intrigui͡a. I esli koroli͡a igraet svita, to za korolevoĭ nabli͡udaet vesʹ dvor. . . V techenie tridt͡sati shesti let v Anglii prodolzhalosʹ blistatelʹnoe i vmeste s tem shatkoe pravlenie Genrikha VIII Ti͡udora. Za ėto vremi͡a ri͡adom s nim na trone smenilisʹ shestʹ korolev, sudʹby kotorykh slozhilisʹ po bolʹsheĭ chasti tragicheski. U kazhdoĭ zheny groznogo monarkha byli svoi sekrety i svoi konfidenty. Odni iskrenne li͡ubili svoi͡u korolevu i verno sluzhili eĭ, drugie lgali, shpionili i v konechnom schete predali ee. . . Kakoĭ videlasʹ zhiznʹ ti͡udorovskogo dvora sovremennikam? Otvet na ėtot vopros daet sbornik iz trinadt͡sati zakhvatyvai͡ushchikh istoriĭ, napisannykh Ėlison Uėĭr v dopolnenie k znamenitoĭ serii romanov "Shestʹ korolev Ti͡udorov". Avtor ėtikh i mnogikh drugikh knig, v tom chisle nauchno-populi͡arnykh, - istorik i pisatelʹnit͡sa, chʹi proizvedenii͡a zanimai͡ut vysshie pozit͡sii v literaturnykh khit-paradakh Soedinennogo Korolevstva. Vpervye na russkom!

History is not only written on battlefields. Often, important decisions are made in quiet palace chambers, where the confidants of the powerful glide like shadows, whispering, peeping, intriguing. And if the king is played by the retinue, then the whole court is watching the queen... For thirty-six years, the brilliant and at the same time shaky reign of Henry VIII Tudor continued in England. During this time, six queens succeeded him on the throne, whose fates were mostly tragic. Each wife of the formidable monarch had her own secrets and her own confidants. Some sincerely loved their queen and served her faithfully, while others lied, spied on her, and ultimately betrayed her. . . How did contemporaries see the life of the Tudor court? The answer to this question is provided by a collection of thirteen fascinating stories written by Alison Ware in addition to the famous series of novels "The Six Queens of the Tudors." The author of these and many other books, including popular science, is a historian and writer whose works occupy the highest positions in the literary charts of the United Kingdom. For the first time in Russian!