For nearly 60 years, King George III reigned over a tumultuous kingdom. His health and realm were in turmoil, whilst family life held challenges of its own. From the corpulent Prinny and the Grand Old...
The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.One of the earliest known Scottish queens...
When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus … his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus’s elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown...
The Lives of Eleanor of Provence and Eleanor de Montfort
by Darren Baker
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399022316
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-05-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
256 Pages
Eleanor of Provence, arriving in England at 12 to marry King Henry III, becomes linked with her sister-in-law Eleanor and Simon de Montfort amidst political turmoil.Eleanor of Provence was born in the...
Richard III is England’s most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the nation. As spectacular as his death at Bosworth in August...
The Wolseys of Suffolk date to Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest notice of a Wolsey as inhabitant of Ipswich is Thomas Wolsey’s father, Robert. He was a successful small businessman and married a Joan...
When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the Scottish border, including...
Of Queen Victoria’s four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses.The first to join the family of the ‘Grandmama...
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