*contains affiliate links* Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Spiritual Lives) Hardcover – 8 June 2021 (US) & 8 April 2021 (UK) This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria’s life but also that life’s centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria’s religiosity, it shows [read more]
*contains affiliate links* The Importance of Pawns by Keira Morgan begins as Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany and Queen of France, lays dying. After two marriages to Kings of France and many lost children, she’ll leave behind two young daughters. Her daughters will be unable to inherit the throne of France, which operates under [read more]
*contains affiliate links* The origins of the future Catherine I of Russia are rather obscure. She was probably born as Marta Helena Skowrońska on 15 April 1684. Her parents died of the plague when she was still quite young, and she was raised by a pastor, in whose household she was probably a servant. She [read more]
*contains affiliate links* Chronos Crime Chronicles – Jane Parker: The Downfall Of Two Tudor Queens? Paperback – 1 May 2021 (US) & 30 April 2021 (UK) Jane Parker, later Viscountess Rochford, was the sister-in-law of Anne Boleyn and was executed alongside Katherine Howard, yet she has remained in the shadows throughout the years, surrounded by [read more]
*contains affiliate links* The abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom shook the country to its core. Unable to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson while also remaining as King and as head of the Church, he decided to abdicate. The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication is meticulously researched, though this does [read more]
*contains affiliate links* The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses Paperback – 28 February 2021 (UK) & 28 April 2021 (US) In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George [read more]
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