*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang follows the stories of Catherine de’ Medici, her daughter Elisabeth, Queen of Spain, and her daughter-in-law, Mary, Queen of Scots. Particularly Mary, Queen of Scots, has been covered extensively by historians, so I was glad to [read more]
*contains affiliate links* The lives of the six Queens of King Henry VIII of England have continued to fascinate us over 500 years later. The National Portrait Gallery is running an exhibition called “Six Lives. The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens”, and this wonderful hardcover book accompanies it. So, even if you can’t make it [read more]
*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 28 – 8 July – 14 July 2024 Queens in Antiquity and the Present: Speculative Visions and Critical Histories Hardcover – 11 July 2024 (UK) The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 (Queenship and Power) Hardcover – 13 July 2024 (US)
*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Informally Royal: Studio Lisa and the Royal Family 1936-1966 is about the photo studio “Studio Lisa”, run by Lisa and Jimmy Sheridan, who ended up taking many photographs of the royal family. They were hired by the then Duke and Duchess of York to take photos of their family. They [read more]
*review copy* *contains affiliate links* Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World is a book that focuses on the relationship between Hawaiian royalty and the mission wives who arrived in Hawaii to bring Christianity. The Hawaiian queens are immensely fascinating, and this book had the opportunity to be so [read more]
*contains affiliate links* Elizabeth Stuart was the daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland, England, and Ireland, and Anne of Denmark. She married Frederick V, Elector Palatine, in 1613, and the pair were briefly King and Queen of Bohemia before being exiled. Elizabeth spent the better part of her life in exile in [read more]
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