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A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
Category: Fiction
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices, echoes, she ...Show more
A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
Category: Fiction
Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history, the Princes in the Tower. Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant, she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who sees her as a rival to ...Show more
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir; Siobhan Clarke
Category: History
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away?. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings?, when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to f ...Show more
BP Portrait Award 2011 by Alison Weir (Contribution by); National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) Staff (Contribution by); Wolverhampton Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by); Aberdeen Art Gallery Staff (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
Featuring works from an international list of artists, the BP Portrait Award presents the diverse range of styles in contemporary portraiture. Historian and novelist Alison Weir's essay explores what makes a good painted portrait, the reasons why portraits are painted and their appeal to writers past an ...Show more
Britain's Royal Families : The Complete Geneology by Alison Weir
Category: History
'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot, daughter of a Wapping shoemaker, who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage, bearing the Prince's signature, were impounded and examined in 1866 by the ...Show more
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But when Henry of Anjou, the young and dynamic future king of England, arrives at the French court, he and the seductive Eleanor experience a mutual passion powe ...Show more
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir
Category: History
When Henry VIII dies in 1547 he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn - Edward, Mary and Elisabeth - to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister Mary Tudor, one of whom was the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, Edward was nine years old, Mary thirty-one and Ja ...Show more
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Category: Fiction | Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle Ser.
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power i ...Show more
Eleanor of Aquitaine By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
Category: History
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power i ...Show more
Eleanor of Aquitaine by the wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
Category: Biography Memoir
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most controversial. Having inherited a vast feudal domain stretching from the Loire to the Pyrenees, she was one of the greatest heiresses in history; yet in her own day, she was famous not only f ...Show more
Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir
Category: Non-Fiction
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. She is one of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty. In youth, she was relegated from a pampered princess to a bastard fugitive under siege in sanctuary. Yet the probable murders of her brothers, ...Show more