Emily Murdoch Perkins Regina

the queens who could have been

"What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne? We may think if princesses as dutiful and elegant, wearing long flowing dresses, but the eldest daughters of England's kinds have been very different. Political intriguers. Abducted nuns who demanded divorces. Murderers. It's time we rediscovered the politicians we lost, the masterminds we see negotiating nunneries not armies, the personalities shining brilliantly even hundreds of years later:...

Engels | 256 pagina's | The History Press, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | 2024

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