The Dudleys: power behind the Tudor throne
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The Rise and Fall of the Dudleys
What was it about them that made them so useful to the tudors, but also so keen to usurp them? That's really the question that prompted me to research the dudleys in the first place. And i'm not sure that i came to a sing answer to that very big and complicated question. Certainly they were ambitious. A i say at one point in the book that ambition is in the dudley blood. But where this ambition comes from, i think, is often presented as a sort of self serveying motive and endlis desire to to attain the throne, rather than serve the throne. In some ways, we'restill talking about them, so in some
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