Queens at War | Alison Weir

Triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice in the lives of five fifteenth-century queens, from 'the queen of history writing' (Sunday Express)

Join best-selling author Alison Weir as she speaks about her recent book Queens at War.

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 gtreat estates. Of their respective wives, Joan of Navarre was imprisoned as a witch; Katherine of Valois, who brought her husband the French crown, later married her wardrobe master and became the ancestress of the Tudors; Margaret of Anjou fought a civil war on her weak husband's behalf; Elizabeth Widville 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.

Dr Alison Weir is the United Kingdom’s most popular and best-selling female historian, and has sold over 3 million books worldwide. Rich in detailed research, Alison’s engaging prose has captured the interest and imagination of countless people, instilling a love of history that has influenced the career paths of historians, historical novelists and teachers, while also greatly increasing knowledge of medieval and Tudor English history among people throughout the world. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an honorary life patron of Historic Royal Palaces and an honorary Doctor of Bishop Grosseteste University.

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