Get over that it's not all about Mary Tudor, people, and appreciate it for what it is. Sure the cover and synopsis are misleading, but it's a nice, fast read that properly depicts England during this turbulent time, led by a deluded queen. Titles don't have to be literal--the "queens sorrow" over...
Anne Boleyn and Lucy Cornwallis: queen andconfectioner, fatefully linked in a court rife with intrigue and treacheryShe was the dark-eyed English beauty who captivated King Henry VIII, only to die at his behest three years after they were married. She was both manipulator and pawn, a complex, mis...
And so far – on that first, mid-July, swift-sweet day – I was getting away with it, scurrying behind the Lady Lieutenant through the Tower of London. We were on our way to some lodgings, I thought: somewhere for me to kick off my shoes and lay down my head, fasten some shutters against the beltin...
Eerily blind to us, those spiders, squatting there, clutching their lace. I walked with care, head bowed, flinching. It was the end of the summer, late August, and I’d come to Sudeley for the impending birth. At last came the opportunity to make amends as best I could, to do my utmost for her. To...
Few would dispute the truth of this statement, yet the process by which such visions are vouchsafed is a mysterious one. What is it that inspires authors to put pen to paper: curiosity, sympathy, passion, obsession? In her own words, Suzannah Dunn reveals what fascinated her about the reign of Ma...