Philippa Gregory: Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 1: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while based on historical events, are the work of the author’s imagination.

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Source ISBNs:

The Constant Princess 9780007190317

The Other Boleyn Girl 9780006514008

The Boleyn Inheritance 9780007190331

Ebook Edition © JULY 2013 ISBN: 9780007518739

Version: 2016-10-06

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Title Page PHILIPPA GREGORY TUDOR COLLECTION VOLUME 1 The Constant Princess The Other Boleyn Girl The Boleyn Inheritance

Copyright Copyright Copyright The Constant Princess The Other Boleyn Girl The Boleyn Inheritance Keep Reading About the Author Also by Philippa Gregory About the Publisher This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while based on historical events, are the work of the author’s imagination. Harper An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins 2001, 2005, 2006 Copyright © Philippa Gregory Ltd 2001, 2005, 2006 Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Philippa Gregory asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBNs: The Constant Princess 9780007190317 The Other Boleyn Girl 9780006514008 The Boleyn Inheritance 9780007190331 Ebook Edition © JULY 2013 ISBN: 9780007518739 Version: 2016-10-06

The Constant Princess

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Boleyn Inheritance

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by Philippa Gregory

About the Publisher

The Constant Princess The Other Boleyn Girl The Boleyn Inheritance Keep Reading About the Author Also by Philippa Gregory About the Publisher

For Anthony

Title Page PHILIPPA GREGORY THE CONSTANT PRINCESS

Dedication

Letters Letters

Princess of Wales Princess of Wales

Granada, 1491

Dogmersfield Palace, Hampshire, Autumn 1501

London, Winter 1501

Ludlow Castle, Spring 1502

Summer 1502

Princess in Waiting

Winter 1503

Princess Again

1504

1509

Katherine, Queen of England

Summer 1509

Autumn 1509

Spring 1510

Winter 1510

Spring 1511

Summer 1511

Autumn 1511

Spring 1512

Summer 1512

Winter 1512

Spring 1513

Summer 1513

Blackfriars Hall The Papal Legate sitting as a court to hear the King’s Great Matter, June 1529

Author’s Note

There was a scream, and then the loud roar of fire enveloping silken hangings, then a mounting crescendo of shouts of panic that spread and spread from one tent to another as the flames ran too, leaping from one silk standard to another, running up guy ropes and bursting through muslin doors. Then the horses were neighing in terror and men shouting to calm them, but the terror in their own voices made it worse, until the whole plain was alight with a thousand raging blazes, and the night swirled with smoke and rang with shouts and screams.

The little girl, starting up out of her bed in her fear, cried out in Spanish for her mother and screamed: ‘The Moors? Are the Moors coming for us?’

‘Dear God, save us, they are firing the camp!’ her nurse gasped. ‘Mother of God, they will rape me, and spit you on their sickle blades.’

‘Mother!’ cried the child, struggling from her bed. ‘Where is my mother?’

She dashed outside, her nightgown flapping at her legs, the hangings of her tent now alight and blazing up behind her in an inferno of panic. All the thousand, thousand tents in the camp were ablaze, sparks pouring up into the dark night sky like fiery fountains, blowing like a swarm of fireflies to carry the disaster onwards.