Lady Margaret Douglas: The Tudor Cousin Who Refused To Be Cast Aside
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Lady Margaret Douglas was a ruthless survivor whose ambition and cleverness changed the course of English monarchy forever.
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Margaret Tudor: The Other Queen of Scots
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Margaret Tudor loved dancing, music, fashion, and power, and she refused to let two terrible husbands (and one meh husband) stand in the way of getting what she wanted.
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Queen Elizabeth I: Part Two: Gloriana
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Queen Elizabeth I found a way to command respect as monarch in a time of widespread misogyny by skilfully portraying herself as more goddess than woman.
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Queen Elizabeth I: Part One: Redheaded Stepchild
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How circumstance, luck, and fate wound up giving England one of the country’s greatest monarchs in the form of an unusually resilient young redheaded woman.
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Queen Mary I: Part Two: The Reign of Bloody Mary
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Queen Mary I broke new ground as the first officially recognized female monarch of England. But her short reign is best remembered for bloodshed, tragedy, and her personal problems.
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Queen Mary I: Part One: Her Mother’s Daughter
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Before she was Bloody Mary, she was Queen Mary. And before that, she was Lady Mary. Before that she was Princess Mary, a young girl who had yet to learn just how terrible her father was.
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Kathryn Parr: Professional Widow
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Kathryn Parr lived through the lives and deaths of Henry VIII’s previous five wives, which is likely how she learned to survive him.
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Catherine Howard: The Doomed, Damaged Child Bride
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Catherine Howard was elevated from obscurity, burned fire bright, and died for it.
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Anne of Cleves: The One That Got Away
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Anne of Cleves was out of her depth at English court, but wound up living longer and happier than any of Henry’s other wives.
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Anne Boleyn: Part One: The Rise And Rise Of A Singular Woman
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In which we learn how Anne Boleyn forced her way into history through sheer force of amazingness.
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