Susan Higginbotham’s ‘Her Highness, The Traitor’ pin interest board

Susan Higginbotham’s new novel, ‘Her Highness, The Traitor’ will be published in the UK at the end of June.

I have been lucky enough to read an advance copy and throughly recommend it.

The novel looks at King Edward VI’s reign, Lady Jane Grey’s succession to the throne and the aftermath, through the eyes of her mother, Frances Grey (Duchess of Suffolk) and her mother-in-law, Jane Dudley (Duchess of Northumberland).

Susan has collated items linked to her novel at Pin Interest. It is a wonderful collection of Jane related objects.

People, Places and Things in Her Highness, The Traitor

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Review of Part 2 of ‘She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens’

‘This is Leicestershire’ reviews part 2 of Helen Castor’s series, ‘She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens. This episode looked at the lives of Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou.

TV Review: She Wolves

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Anne Boleyn Files has details of The Boleyn Festival

Claire at The Anne Boleyn Files has posted further details about ‘The Boleyn Festival’ at Blickling in May.

Anne Boleyn Files – The Boleyn Festival

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Helen Castor on Woman’s Hour – Lost Queens: Elizabeth Stuart

Helen Castor discussed Elizabeth Stuart on Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 this morning.

‘It’s expected that Parliament will pass legislation later this year which would allow a girl to succeed to the throne over a younger brother. We’ve been looking back in history to tell the stories of the Lost Queens – women who would have become monarch if, simply, the oldest child had taken the throne. Elizabeth Stuart was the elder sister of Charles I. How different might the course of history have been if she had become a Queen of England? Our reporter, Louise Adamson, has been talking to the historian Helen Castor about the woman who came to be known as the Winter Queen of Bohemia.’

From Woman’s Hour

You can listen at the Woman’s Hour website. The interview is 14 minutes in.

Women’s Hour – Lost Queens: Elizabeth Stuart

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Books 2012: On

15th March – A Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England by Susannah Lipscomb

‘For the armchair traveller or those looking for inspiration for a day out, The Visitor’s Companion to Tudor England takes you to palaces, castles, theatres and abbeys to uncover the stories behind Tudor England. Susannah Lipscomb visits over fifty Tudor places, from the famous palace at Hampton Court where dangerous court intrigue was rife, to less well-known houses, such as Anne Boleyn’s childhood home at Hever Castle or Tutbury Castle where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned.

In the corridors of power and the courtyards of country houses we meet the passionate but tragic Kateryn Parr, Henry VIII’s last wife, Lady Jane Grey the nine-day queen, and hear how Sir Walter Raleigh planned his trip to the New World. Through the places that defined them, this lively and engaging book reveals the rich history of the Tudors and paints a vivid and captivating picture of what it would have been like to live in Tudor England.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Susannah Lipscomb

Further details – Edbury Publishing

Further details – Amazon.co.uk

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