The Tudor Book Reviews 9: Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion by Susan Ronald
The twenty five year old Elizabeth I in her coronation robes, embroidered with Tudor roses Since Elizabeth I was preceded by her sister...
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Carolyn Harris
Sep 20, 20122 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 8: A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I by Rayne Allinson
Elizabeth largely ignored the King of Spain’s advice but adopted a similar tone with her younger cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. The Queen...
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Carolyn Harris
Sep 4, 20121 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 7: Mary I: Gender, Power and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen by Sarah Duncan
Since Mary’s subjects feared Philip would wield power in England as Mary’s husband, the Queen insisted on a contract that preserved her...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 28, 20121 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 6: The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre and Historiography 1440-1627 by Kavita Mudan Finn
The shifting fortunes of these royal women during the political turbulence have inspired centuries of literary interpretation from...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 25, 20122 min read
The Diamond Jubilee Book Reviews 8: The Diamond Queen by Andrew Marr
One of the fascinating themes of The Diamond Queen is the relationship between the monarchy and the social and cultural changes that have...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 20, 20123 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 5: Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth Century England by Lisa Benz St. John
Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II mourn King George VI in 1952. This continuous presence of reigning and dowager...
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Carolyn Harris
Aug 11, 20122 min read
The Diamond Jubilee Book Reviews 7: God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Heart of the Monarchy by Ian Bradley
Canterbury Cathedral, seat of the Church of England Bradley provides the full historical context for debates concerning the religious...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 31, 20121 min read
The Victorian Book Reviews 2: Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy
At 525 pages plus footnotes, bibliography and index, Shooting Victoria is longer than most popularly published works of royal history but...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 22, 20122 min read
The Diamond Jubilee Book Reviews 6: Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King by Penny Junor
Junor provides unique examples of how this life in the public eye both expanded and limited William’s experiences. While the publicity...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 19, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 4: Richard III: A Life by David Baldwin
After thirty years of Tudor propaganda designed to blacken the late King Richard III’s reputation, Cardinal Wolsey was incredulous that...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 15, 20121 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 5: Mary Rose: Tudor Princess, Queen of France, the Extraordinary Life of Henry VIII’s Sister by David Loades
Loades argues that within this context, Mary’s decision to marry Suffolk was neither emotional nor impulsive but instead combined her...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 14, 20121 min read
The Romanov Book Reviews 3: A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia by Russell E. Martin
Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich Selects His Bride by Grigory Sedov Martin judges Sedov’s painting to be the most accurate representation of the...
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Carolyn Harris
Jul 9, 20122 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 4: The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican by Catherine Fletcher
In The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican, Catherine Fletcher presents the negotiations surrounding the...
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Carolyn Harris
May 31, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 3: Eleanor de Montfort, A Rebel Countess in Medieval England by Louise J. Wilkinson
Although Eleanor enjoyed a warm relationship with her brother in childhood, she identified herself completely with Simon’s cause,...
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Carolyn Harris
May 9, 20121 min read
The Best Royal History Books for Mother’s Day
In recent years, there has been an outpouring of popular and scholarly history books looking at the relationships between royal mothers...
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Carolyn Harris
May 7, 20121 min read
The King’s Mistress by Claudia Gold (Book Review)
Gold is understandably sympathetic to Melusine’s situation as the unofficial royal consort. Her narrative, however often shows the same...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 24, 20122 min read
The Medieval Book Reviews 2: Matilda, Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman
As regent of Normandy during William’s conquest of England, Matilda would have been too busy ruling her husband’s fractious domains to...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 18, 20121 min read
The Tudor Book Reviews 3: Wicked Women of Tudor England by Retha Warnicke
Portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester (1543-1634), one of the most notorious women of...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 12, 20121 min read
The Kings’ Mistresses by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (Book Review)
Despite their immense wealth, patronage and influence, both women experienced significant mistreatment in their marriages as Marie’s...
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Carolyn Harris
Apr 9, 20122 min read
The Diamond Jubilee Book Reviews 5: Canada’s Constitutional Monarchy by Nathan Tidridge
Pachter's 1988 pastel drawing of Queen Elizabeth II Trooping the Colour astride a moose. The image was part of a series of landscapes...
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