An Exchange of Marriage Vows? Or All Wishful Thinking?
A Tapestry of Treason First a few thoughts on the probably/possible marriage of Constance of York to Edmund Earl of Kent. So much intrigue here to conjure with. After…
A Tapestry of Treason First a few thoughts on the probably/possible marriage of Constance of York to Edmund Earl of Kent. So much intrigue here to conjure with. After…
Queen of the North Sumptuous and Evocative Historical Fiction from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author Queen of the North tells the passionate but ultimately tragic tale of Elizabeth Mortimer, daughter…
Queen of the North The two main protagonists in my novel Queen of the North are Sir Henry Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer. For those readers who have a keen enjoyment…
(And much that we do not know) Elizabeth was born in 1371 in one of the Mortimer castles in the Welsh Marches, probably in Usk where Roger her eldest brother…
The marriage of Joan of Kent to Edward, Prince of Wales, heir to the English throne proved to be in some ways quite as scandalous as her previous marital adventures…
All the medieval women I have written about in the past have been chosen by me because of the characters with whom they interacted and the story they had to…
… the final days of a determined and ambitious woman. After a life which was nothing if not adventurous, Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, died on 7/8th or perhaps…
I had come across this Prophecy of the Six Kings before in my readings surrounding the Plantagenet kings, but when writing ‘The Queen’s Choice’, it suddenly became very pertinent because…