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  • Eleanor of Castile

    The Shadow Queen

    by Sara Cockerill ...
    Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England’s greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England’s queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest and was dominated by her military hero of a father (St Ferdinand) and her prodigiously clever brother (King Alfonso X the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Eleanor of Aquitaine

    Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires

    by Sara Cockerill ...
    In the competition for remarkable queens, Eleanor of Aquitaine tends to win. In fact her story sometimes seems so extreme it ought to be made up. The headlines: orphaned as a child, Duchess in her own right, Queen of France, crusader, survivor of a terrible battle, kidnapped by her own husband, captured by pirates, divorced for barrenness, Countess of Anjou, Queen of England, mother of at least ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Cecily Neville

    Mother of Kings

    by Amy Licence ...
    Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth century. Cecily’s marriage to Richard, Duke of York, was successful, even happy, and she travelled with him wherever his career dictated, bearing his ... Read more

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  • Margaret Beaufort

    Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    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 her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor monarchs. Margaret's royal blood placed her on the fringes of the ... Read more

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  • The Women of the Wars of the Roses

    Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort & Elizabeth of York

    by Alicia Carter ...
    The Tudor dynasty traditionally starts with Henry VII’s victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. In reality, however, the story of England’s most popular dynasty starts much earlier—and it starts with three courageous women who shaped their own destiny. The Tudor dynasty traces its origin to Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth of York—women who waged through blood and loss ... Read more

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  • The May Bride

    by Suzannah Dunn ...
    I didn't stand a chance: looking back over thirteen years, that's what I see. In the very first instant, I was won over, and of course I was: I was fifteen and had been nowhere and done nothing, whereas Katherine was twenty-one and yellow-silk-clad and just married to the golden boy...Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Richard III

    by David Baldwin ...
    Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richards character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended, and the arguments between his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bessie Blount: Mistress to Henry VIII

    Mistress to Henry VIII

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    The earliest known and longest lasting mistress of Henry VIII, Bessie Blount was the kings first love. More beautiful that Anne Boleyn or any of Henrys other wives or concubines, Bessies beauty and other charms ensured that she turned heads, winning a place at court as one of Catherine of Aragons ladies. Within months she was partnering the king in dancing and she rose to be the woman with the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Catherine Parr

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

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    The sixth wife of Henry VIII was also the most married queen of England, outliving three husbands before finally marrying for love. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught the attention of the elderly Henry VIII.She was the most reluctant of all Henrys wives, offering to become his mistress rather than submit herself to the dangers of becoming ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride

    Henry VIII's Discarded Bride

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    I like her not! was the verdict of Henry VIII on meeting his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, for the first time. Anne could have said something similar on meeting Henry and, having been promised the most handsome prince in Europe, she was destined to be disappointed in the elderly and corpulent king. Henry also felt that Anne was not as she had been described, complaining that he had been sent a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Winter Mantle

    by Elizabeth Chadwick ...
    SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION: A 'Director's Cut' of one of Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and best-loved novels.**'**An author who makes history come gloriously alive' The Times'Stunning' Barbara Erskine************************************Normandy, 1067William of Normandy has returned home in triumph, fresh from defeating King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. He has been forced to bring wit... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Blood Sisters

    The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses

    by Sarah Gristwood ...
    The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses.The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved: Richard Duke of York, Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III and Henry VII. But these years were also packed with women’s drama and – in the tales of conflicted maternity and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD