For most, the name of Lady Jane Grey means the "nine days queen," the child who was used as a pawn in the power politics of the Tudor realm by both her parents, the Suffolks, and Northumberlands. Alis
This volume gives an account of the women both behind the scenes and at the forefront of 16th-century English history, including Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Henry VIII's six wiv
A?personal rather than political history examining the origins of the family and interweaving the lives of the five Tudor monarchs with lesser-known branches of the tree?The Tudors ruled England for l
Chronicles the first twenty-five years of the British monarch's life, describing how she used her strength and cunning to rise from her disinheritance and imprisonment at an early age to become Englan
"I delight in this work," wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused." But her early years were difficult ones. Father
A copiously illustrated guide to the monarchs of the British Isles and Ireland from pre-Saxon times to the present, this book is divided into five sections, complete with concise genealogical charts a
