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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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Source ISBN: 9780007147298
Ebook Edition © December 2016 ISBN: 9780007370153
Version: 2017-01-23
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The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1545, artist unknown. Reproduced courtesy of The Royal Collection © HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Contents
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The girl, giggling and over-excited, was running in the sunlit garden, running away from her stepfather, but not so fast that he could not catch her. Her stepmother, seated in an arbour with Rosamund roses in bud all around her, caught sight of the fourteen-year-old girl and the handsome