Twelve Facts you should know about Elizabeth Mortimer, Lady Percy
(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…
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Competition Time
Exciting News from my publishers HQ. With less than a week to go before the publication of Queen of the North in hardback on 31st of May 2018, I have…
The Shadow Queen: Celebratory Giveaway
This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all who left a comment to celebrate the publication of The Shadow Queen. For All My Readers To mark the publication of…
Fantastic New Covers
Fantastic New Covers For All My Back-List My publishers have decided to co-ordinate the covers of my back-list of medieval historical novels to match the new one for The Shadow…
Some thoughts: was Joan, Fair Maid of Kent, a beautiful woman?
I frequently receive comments on my posts and blogs that Joan of Kent must indeed have been an outstandingly beautiful woman. Do not the images of her, that can be…
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Joan of Kent: not content with one scandalous marriage …
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…
Anne O’Brien in The Times Review
As part of the excitement for the publication of The Shadow Queen, Anne was featured in a wonderful piece in The Times where she chooses her Six Best Queens. What…
Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent; a Woman of much Charm and Ambition.
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…
Epitaph of Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales
Edward’s title, the Black Prince, frequently used in history, was not found in evidence until the Tudor period, and so it would be wrong to use it to assess either…
Ten Fascinating Facts about the Fair Maid of Kent
Celebrating Joan of Kent as The Shadow Queen. http://buff.ly/2pKQh5t Ten Fascinating Facts: 1.Daughter of Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent, son of Edward I by his second wife, Joan was…
The Death of Joan, Countess of Kent, Princess of Wales, King’s Mother.
… 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 14th August 1385,…
The Last Will and Testament of Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales, King’s Mother.
… and the importance of a good bed. In the year of our Lord 1385, and of the reign of my dear son Richard, King of England and France; at…
