The Queen's Favourite

HIS FATHER TRIED USURPATION TO PUT A DUDLEY ON ENGLANDS THRONE.

ROBERT WILL TRY LOVE.

Thrust into the treacherous world of the Tudor court as a boy, Robert Dudley is placed close to the royal children and soon learns that friendship can be the most powerful currency of all.

But when his fathers bold gambit to crown Lady Jane Grey ends in disaster, the Dudley name becomes synonymous with treason. Robert and his brothers are imprisoned in the Tower of London, some never to feel freedom again.

Exiled to the country, Roberts ambitions seem as dead as his familys reputation. Then Queen Mary dies, and suddenly, there is everything to play for.

Elizabeth Tudor is now queen and she wants her old friend close. Their rekindled friendship soon becomes the scandal of Europe and the crown feels almost within reach. But between Robert and the throne stand rivals, enemies and the fierce, unknowable will of a queen who answers to no one.

His father dreamed of a Dudley sitting on the throne of England.

Can Robert make that dream come true? Or will ambition once again prove the familys undoing?