The Queen and the Heretic: How two women changed the religion of England Paperback – 23 March 2018 (UK & US) The dual biography of two remarkable women – Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. But they were joined together in their [read more]
Blanche of Portugal was born on 25 February 1259 as the daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and his second wife Beatrice of Castile. Around 1277, she went to live in the Monastery of Lorvão, but she did not take the veil or become its abbess. She is then recorded as living in Seville with her mother in 1283, and [read more]
This article was written by Shivangi Kaushik. Princess Sanyogita was a daughter of King Jaichand of Kannauj (in modern-day India). She was in love with Prithviraj Chauhan, King of Delhi. She had heard about his bravery and courage and wanted to marry him. Her father did not like Prithviraj Chauhan because he had refused to accept [read more]
After her divorce from Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon in 1978, Princess Margaret met her former love, Peter Townsend, for lunch 30 years after their romance ended. Princess Margaret told her close friend Lady Glenconner what she thought of Peter after the lunch. “Peter Townsend came to lunch with her and I said: “What was [read more]
Doune Castle is in the village of Doune, near Stirling in Scotland. It was originally built in the 13th century and was most likely damaged during the Scottish Wars of Independence. It was then rebuilt in the current form by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany. It was passed into the hands of the crowns in [read more]
The lives of England’s medieval queens were packed with incident—love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare—but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and omission. Now esteemed biographer Alison Weir provides a fresh perspective and restores these women to their rightful place in history. Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 [read more]
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