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Book News Week 42

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 42 – 14 October – 20 October 2024 The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots  Hardcover – 15 October 2024 (UK) A Ruler’s Consort in Early Modern Germany: Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)  Paperback – 14 October 2024 (UK & [read more]

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Book News Week 33

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 33 – 12 August – 18 August 2024 The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors  Paperback – 15 August 2024 (US) Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots  Paperback – 13 August 2024 (US)  

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Book News Week 18

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 18 – 29 April – 5 May 2024 Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty  Hardcover – 30 April 2024 (US) Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn  Kindle Edition – 2 May 2024 (US & UK) Forgotten Women of the Wars of the Roses: [read more]

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Book News October 2022

*contains affiliate links* The Real Queen Charlotte: Inside the Real Bridgerton Court  Hardcover – 31 August 2022 (UK) & 30 October 2022 (US) Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and [read more]

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Book News August 2022

*contains affiliate links* Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen  Hardcover – 4 August 2022 (UK & US) Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain’s Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that ‘Popish brat of France’, a ‘notorious whore’ and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the [read more]

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Book News May 2022

*contains affiliate links* Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters  Hardcover – 28 May 2022 (UK) & 7 September 2022 (US) Princess Victoria Eugenia (Ena) of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice (Bee) of Saxe-Coburg, granddaughters of Queen Victoria of England, married into the Spanish royal family. In 1906, Ena became the consort of King Alfonso XIII, [read more]