Alexandra of Denmark

Inside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra by Kate Strasdin Book Review

Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales [read more]

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Book News April 2018

Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III Hardcover – 30 April 2018 (UK) & 2 August 2018 (US) Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous Kingmaker , Richard, Earl of Warwick, Cecily Neville was a key player on the political stage of fifteenth-century Britain England. Mythologically [read more]

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Darling Queen, Dear Old Bones (edited) by Emerentia van Heuven-van Nes Book Review

This book presents a remarkable collection of letters from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880–1962) and her governess, Elizabeth Saxton Winter (1855–1936), an Englishwoman. The earliest letters are those of a child, sent to Miss Winter when she was on holiday in England, but after Wilhelmina’s education was finished in 1896 and she had no [read more]

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Book News March 2018

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]