Christina of Denmark, the forgotten Tudor, navigated the most dangerous court in history by playing a wicked game of thrones.


Christina of Denmark was considered a dynamo even in her own day—and she needed to be. Strikingly beautiful, she nonetheless navigated a life full of ugliness and danger, from her father’s exile and imprisonment to the kidnapping of her own son. But above all, her greatest legacy may have been the gruesome fate she narrowly avoided: Being a Tudor queen.