Cleopatra VII: the ambitious Egyptian Queen who did a lot more than (allegedly) die by snakebite
Digging deeper into the feminist history of a Queen best known for her hairstyle and how she (maybe) died.
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Reign: Coup de Grace
Mary finally gets the upper hand, only to lose it — and one of her dearest friends — in the most vicious way imaginable.
Alias Grace: promo images
Gorgeous promo shots from the upcoming adaptation of Alias Grace hint we may be in the midst of a Margaret Atwood-aissance as well as a true crime costume drama-aissance.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova: a badass teen prankster remembered for an afterlife that wasn’t her own
Anastasia is maybe the only person in history better known for what she didn’t do than for what she did.
Reign: The Shakedown
Mary and Elizabeth’s diametrically opposing philosophies are front and centre this week, as both choose forgiveness for very different reasons.
Jeanne de la Motte: the 18th century con woman who destroyed Marie Antoinette and brought about the French Revolution
Jeanne de la Motte was a badass con woman whose scheming basically made the French Revolution happen. Also? Her true story has more plot twists than a lot of fiction.
Reign: Dead of Night
Mary is trapped in marriage to a man who is both her saviour and her destroyer; the more she tries to pull away, the more dangerous her life becomes.
