Curious about the historical woman who keeps being the inspiration for movies, books, and TV shoes? Here’s the scoop on the ongoing appeal of this doomed Queen's story.
There’s something about Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Shelley’s Lasting Feminist Legacy And Influence
How a runaway teen pregnant with her married lover's child revolutionized the publishing industry.
Katherine of Aragon: Part One: The Spanish Princess Bride
Looking at the little discussed early years of Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess who was more than just the woman eventually discarded by her husband.
Marguerite de Valois: the indomitable French Princess who became a Queen of two countries
Fiction writers need to embellish very little to turn Marguerite's life into a highly dramatic narrative. This woman truly lived her best life.
Lady Jane Grey: the girl who became a pawn who became a Queen who never had a chance
The short, weird life of England's first solo female monarch.
Catherine de’Medici: orphan, captive, wife, Queen, mother, politician, survivor
The story of a woman who single-handedly kept France afloat during a time of constant Civil War. And she also sort of invented ballet!
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.
Remembering Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, a girl who became famous 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. But the girl she was deserves to be remembered too.
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.
Erzsébet Báthory: an independent woman ahead of her time, who may also have been the first female serial killer
Erzsébet Báthory's story inspired the trope of bathing in a bath of virgin blood -- and her true story was even more grisly than you think.