Mistress Margaret Mautby Paston meets the Queen 1453
Celebrating with a Giveaway Paperback Publication of The Royal Game on 31st March 2022. Mistress Margaret Mautby Paston meets the Queen 1453 In April 1453 Queen Margaret (of Anjou),…
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A Tea Break with The Queen’s Rival
Here are the first pages of The Queen’s Rival Introducing Cecily Neville and her three youngest children A Promise of things to come … Sit with a cup of tea…
Celebratory Giveaway: The Queen’s Rival
To Celebrate the Paperback Publication of The Queen’s Rival 15th April 2021. Two Signed Copies of The Queen’s Rival A Pious Life What did Cecily Neville do when…
Who Were The Pastons?
To Celebrate The Royal Game. A Tale of Courage and Resilience. Of Power and Danger. The Fabulous Pastons The Pastons were to be found living in Norfolk in the…
Scandal Hits the House of York!
The piety of Cecily Neville was much praised during her lifetime, particularly in her later years. Her pride was also widely acknowledged. Proud Cis has become a recognisable epithet. Yet…
The Queen’s Rival and the Wheel of Fortune
A Short but Colourful Post! In The Queen’s Rival I make frequent use of the idea of the Wheel of Fortune in the history of Cecily Neville and the House…
Why was I inspired to write about Elizabeth Mortimer?
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…
Family Connections: Percy, Mortimer, – and Tudor?
Queen of the North released in paperback on 18th April 2019 The two main protagonists in my novel Queen of the North are Sir Henry Percy and Elizabeth Mortimer. For those…
Queen of the North Celebratory Giveaway
Celebration time. This Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all who visited the page and took part. and particularly many thanks for all the kind words and best wishes….
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…
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…
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…
