- World: Amberley
- Published: 15th November 2014
- Agent: Donald Winchester
Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England
Elizabeth Norton
The kings of Anglo-Saxon England were reluctant to allow a woman to sit beside them on the throne; when Elfrida shared her husband Edgar’s coronation at Bath in 973, she broke the mould. A powerful queen, she ruthlessly disposed of rivals in pursuit of the crown for her son, Ethelred the Unready. In this first biography of Elfrida, Norton asks whether she really was the black-hearted woman who murdered King Edward the Martyr, her stepson, to make way for Ethelred.
Other books by Elizabeth Norton
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The Lives of Tudor Women
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The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor
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The Illustrated Six Wives of Henry VIII
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The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History
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Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII
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England’s Queens: The Biography
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Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
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Anne of Cleeve’s: Henry VIII’s Discarded Bride
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Catherine Parr: Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII
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She Wolves: Notorious Queens of England
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Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII’s Obsession
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s True Love