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María de Molina, Queen and Regent: Life and Rule in Castile-León, 1259-1321...
This biography of Queen Maria de Molina thematically explores her life and demonstrates her collective exercise of power and authority as queen. Throughout her public life, Maria de Molina’s resilient...
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Inventing Eleanor: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Image of Eleanor of...
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Yet her real achievements have...
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Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace by...
Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have seen an...
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July Book News
The Other Tudor Princess: Margaret Douglas, Henry VIII’s Niece Paperback – 4 Apr 2016 (UK) & 1 July 2016 (US) The Other Tudor Princess brings to life the story of Margaret Douglas, a shadowy and...
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The Tudor Brandons by Sarah-Beth Watkins Book Review
This fascinating book studies the life and times of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Henry VIII’s dearest sister and his closest companion. Charles rose from being Henry’s childhood friend to becoming...
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The Lost Tudor Princess By Alison Weir Book Review
Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin, and grandmother of monarchs. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of...
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August Book News
I Love You Madly: The Secret Letters of Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen Hardcover – 7 July 2016 (UK ) & 1 August 2016 (US) The doubts which still remain about the exact nature of the...
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The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore Book Review
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did...
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Life in the Georgian Court by Catherine Curzon Book Review
As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the British Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history...
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September Book News
Life in the Georgian Court Hardcover – 30 Jun 2016 (UK) & 14 September 2016 (US) As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the British Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in...
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Doubtful and dangerous: The question of succession in late Elizabethan...
Doubtful and dangerous examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Although the earlier...
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Ten Secrets Between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn That You Should Know
This article was written by Sandra Vasoli, author of Anne Boleyn’s Letter from the Tower, Struck with the Dart of Love and Truth Endures, who earned a Bachelor’s degree in English and biology from...
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Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham Book Review
Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering...
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I Love You Madly: Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Secret Letters by...
Delve deeper into the world of the BBC hit drama series Versailles, and discover the real Marie-Antoinette in this ground-breaking study of her secret love affair with the Swedish diplomat Count Axel...
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October Book News
Victoria Hardcover – 11 Aug 2016 (UK) & 4 October 2016 (US) Queen of Great Britain and ruler of an empire on which the sun never set, Victoria gave her name to an age that came to represent...
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The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga (edited) by Rachel Stone and...
In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry....
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The First German Empress: Augusta, Consort of Emperor William I by John van...
Born a princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1811, Augusta was married at the age of seventeen to Prince William of Prussia, the future King and first German Emperor. A woman of progressive opinions and...
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November Book News
Victoria: The Queen: The Woman Who Shaped the Modern World Hardcover – 15 November 2016 (UK & US) For readers of Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra and Sally Bedell Smith’s Elizabeth the Queen comes the...
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Victoria: A Celebration of a Queen and her Glorious Reign by Deborah Jaffé...
An incisive tribute to one of Britain’s most powerful and influential monarchs ever. Queen of Great Britain and sovereign of an empire on which the sun never set, Victoria ruled for an unprecedented...
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Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen: A Novel by Alison Weir Book Review
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII’s wives....
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