The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

Through a 21st century lens, Thomas Seymour was a pedophile predator. At the very least he was a creep and a sex pest who assaulted the daughter of a king repeatedly. He groomed her, made his wife complicit in the abuse, and got away with it. The author did amazing work piecing together primary sources to tell this story and the broader story of Seymour's hamfisted attempts to gain power, but the epilogue diminishes that accomplishment. The final pages ignore Seymour's predatory nature and instead sound like a romance novel, lauding a man who refused to take no for an answer, considering his highest accomplishment the fact that he got closer to deflowering Elizabeth I than any other man.