"Why should the men get all the credit? Lisa Hilton redresses the imbalance in this absorbing study of 20 queens"
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'Queens Consort'

by Lisa Hilton

From Eleanor of Castile's eccentric passion for fruit to Anne of Bohemia's contribution to the Protestant reformation, Queens Consort is a provocative and dramatic narrative which redefines English history in terms of an exceptional group of women whose personal ambitions, triumphs and failures helped to give birth to the modern state.