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Henry VIII
1546 - Whitehall
Bodily decline, succession, and the court smelling weakness.
A king whose body is failing faster than his grip on power dictates a version of events no courtier would dare to write.
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1546 to 1636
1546 to 1636 opens onto 9 lives, 8 place stories, and 1 named historical windows.
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Michelangelo
1564 - Rome
I am still at the marble.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
1566 - Camp Outside Szigetvar
In the camp outside Szigetvár, the most powerful sultan in Ottoman history confronts the campaign he knows will be his last.
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Mary Queen of Scots
1587 - Fotheringhay Castle
Captivity, misrepresentation, and royal intelligence under sentence.
Confined at Fotheringhay, a queen who was never allowed to rule writes her account before her cousin's axe falls.
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Catherine de' Medici
1588 - Blois
Court crisis, dynastic weakness, and strategy under slander.
At Blois, as the court tightens around her, a queen mother writes the truth about thirty years of keeping France alive.
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Elizabeth I
1603 - Whitehall
Delay, succession, and the theft of a carefully built image.
In her final winter, a queen who gave everything to England asks whether the throne was worth what it destroyed.
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Britain And IrelandPlace story
Whitehall, London
Alive in this timeline around 1546 to 1603 / story span 1546-1603
Connected to 2 lives including Henry VIII, Elizabeth I.
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Italy And Alpine EuropePlace story
Rome, Italy
Alive in this timeline around 1564 / story span 44 BCE-1564
Connected to 1 life including Michelangelo.
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Renaissance
Renaissance courts and workshops
1400 to 1600
Art, learning, and authority concentrated in courts, studios, and city-states.
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Henry VIII
1546 - Whitehall
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Bodily decline, succession, and the court smelling weakness.
A king whose body is failing faster than his grip on power dictates a version of events no courtier would dare to write.
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