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The Rose and the Pomegranate

by Leah Toole

An alternate path for the Tudor succession

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An alternate path for the Tudor succession

The novel pivots on a single historical change: Prince Arthur survives the sweating sickness in 1502 after marrying Katherine of Aragon. From that altered succession, Leah Toole explores a Tudor England ruled by Arthur rather than his younger brother, Henry VIII. The book frames its imagined history around questions of political, domestic, and religious change, including whether familiar events associated with Henry’s reign would unfold differently. Its focus on Arthur and Katherine places their marriage at the heart of a speculative reworking of the Tudor era.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in alternate-history fiction grounded in Tudor England.
  • Readers curious about Arthur Tudor, Katherine of Aragon, and the historical succession that preceded Henry VIII’s reign.

Themes

Alternate historyTudor successionMarriage and political alliancePolitical and religious change

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Book overview

What if Prince Arthur Tudor hadn't died?

It is 1502 and Arthur Tudor has just married the Spanish infanta Katherine of Aragon, solidifying the alliance between England and Castille, when they are both struck down with the infamous sudor anglicus, better known as the sweating sickness.
In the history books as we know it, fifteen-year-old Arthur succumbs to the illness, leaving Katherine - and England - at the mercy of Arthur's younger brother, the future King Henry VIII.

But what if Arthur Tudor had not died on that fateful day?
What if he had survived and lived on to become the next King of England, as he had been born to be?
Would England face the same political, domestic, and religious struggles as it did under Henry VIII? Would Henry VIII's six famous wives face similar fates?

Step into this alternative Tudor historical fiction and explore the life King Arthur of England could have led, with Katherine of Aragon by his side and the unknown future ahead, in 'The Rose and the Pomegranate'.
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