Alison Weir – Queens at War: England’s Medieval Queens

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Festival favourite Alison Weir returns with her latest book and five fascinating Queens…

The fifteenth century was a turbulent age and each of the five queens who appear in this book were caught up in wars that changed the courses of their lives: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses, between the royal Houses of Lancaster and York. Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI all married to seal a peace with France. Edward IV married – scandalously – for love, Richard III to gain great estates. Of their respective wives, Joan of Navarre was imprisoned as a witch; Katherine of Valois, who brought her husband the French crown and became the ancestress of the Tudors; Margaret of Anjou fought a civil war on her weak husband’s behalf; Elizabeth Wydeville lived to see her sons, the Princes in the Tower, disappear from history; and Anne Neville died after losing her only child, forsaken by her husband. Theirs are stirring stories of triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice.

Alison Weir is the biggest-selling female historian (and fifth best-selling historian) in the UK. She has published 32 titles and sold more than 3 million books – over a million in the UK and 2.2 million in the US.