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  28th July 2025

  Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy

  Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred... more »

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  15th June 2018

  The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor

  England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king’s widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas... more »

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  15th June 2018

  The Illustrated Six Wives of Henry VIII

  Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain’s most famous king because of it. His pursuit of... more »

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  15th June 2018

  The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History

  EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century, moving... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII

  Beautiful, young, exuberant, the amazing life of Elizabeth Blount, Henry VIII’s mistress and mother to his first son who came tantalizingly close to succeeding him... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII’s Obsession

  Doomed queen of Henry VIII, mother to Elizabeth I, the epic story of Anne Boleyn.Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Catherine Parr: Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII

  Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII. The sixth wife of Henry VIII was also the most married queen... more »

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  15th June 2018

  She Wolves: Notorious Queens of England

  Some of the queens featured in She Wolves are well known and have been the subject of biography – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy,... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s True Love

  The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII’s third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most – a son... more »

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  15th June 2018

  England’s Queens: The Biography

  Her story not his, the English monarchy through the private and public lives of the queens of England. Nearly eighty women have sat on the... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Anne Boleyn: In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her

  The complete letters, dispatches and chronicles that tell the real story of Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, caused comment wherever... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

  The extraordinary true story of the ‘Red Queen’. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Anne of Cleeve’s: Henry VIII’s Discarded Bride

  The first major biography of Henry VIII least favourite wife – but the one who outlived them all. ‘I like her not!’ was the verdict... more »

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  15th June 2018

  The Lives of Tudor Women

  The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was... more »

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  15th June 2018

  Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England

  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... more »