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Book News Week 42

*contains affiliate links* Book News Week 42 – 12 October – 18 October 2026 Margaret of Austria, 1480–1530: Regent and Governor of the Netherlands, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World) Hardcover – 14 October 2026 (US & UK) Livia: Mother of Rome (Ancient Lives) Hardcover – 13 October [read more]
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Book News Week 40

*contains affiliate links* Book news week 40: 2 October – 8 October 2023 Powerful Princesses: 10 Untold Stories of History’s Boldest Heroines (Heroic Heroines) Paperback – 3 October 2023 (UK) Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen  Paperback – 5 October 2023 (UK)  
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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 March 2020

The War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield Hardcover – 10 March 2020 (US) & 26 March 2020 (UK) History’s killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles. Elizabeth Tudor and Golda Meir played the roles of high-stakes gamblers who studied maps with an unblinking, calculating eye. Angola’s Queen Njinga was willing to [read more]
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Book News February 2020

The American Duchess Paperback – 19 March 2020 (US) & 6 February 2020 (UK) Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into England’s royal family. In 1936, just months into his reign, King Edward VIII proposed to Wallis Simpson, a divorced American woman. Gossip ran wild, and that cacophony of speculation and distrust both [read more]
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Book News April 2019

Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe Paperback – 16 April 2019 (UK & US) As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria’s grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was determined to maneuver them into a series of dynastic marriages with the royal houses of Europe. [read more]