Overview :England, late 1547. King Henry VIII Is dead. His fourteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the king's widow, Catherine Parr, and h... Read More
Overview :England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2,000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, a... Read More
Overview :The six wives of Henry VIII brought queenship into the early modern era and his daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I, found themselves in an al... Read More
Overview :Bather in blood, lesbian, murderer, tiger, torturer, vampire, werewolf and witch. All titles of the infamous Countess Elizabeth Bathory of H... Read More
Overview :Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, caused comment wherever she went. Through the chronicles, letters and dispatches written by both... Read More
Overview :Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and dynamic women in a way that no era had been before. Historian Elizabeth Norton expl... Read More
Overview :An accessible, heavily illustrated introduction to the life of Anne Boleyn. Alluring but not beautiful, Anne Boleyn's wit and poise won her ... Read More
Overview :Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain's most famous king because of it. His pursuit of... Read More
Overview :The first major biography of Henry VIII least favourite wife - but the one who outlived them all. 'I like her not ' was the verdict of Henry... Read More
Overview :The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress o... Read More
Overview :Contrary to popular belief, Anglo-Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all... Read More
Overview :The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and he... Read More
Overview :EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth c... Read More
Overview :A fascinating history of female rulers across time and across the world Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable... Read More