STARZ ‘The White Queen’: Lady Margaret Beaufort
The Red Queen A loyal Lancastrian and cousin to the deposed King Henry VI (David Shelley). Margaret suffered a difficult childhood, raised by a loveless and vindictive mother (Lady Beauchamp […]
Family of Queen Katherine: The Baux Family of Andria
Francesco de Balzo, 1st Duke of Andria (or Baux) (c.1330[1] – 23 April 1422) Count of Montescaglioso and Squillace, Signore of Berre, Mison, and Tiano. He was the son of […]
Elizabeth Fremantle: ‘The Reluctant Queen’
Historical novelist Elizabeth Fremantle explains why for her, Katherine Parr will always be the most fascinating of Henry’s wives – “Foxe’s Book Of Martyrs, published when the Catholic and Protestant […]
STARZ ‘The White Queen’: Elizabeth Woodville
The “common” Queen A young commoner from the House of Lancaster with angelic beauty and high intellect, Elizabeth becomes widowed when her first husband is killed in battle. She is […]
The Hampton Court Pedigrees: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
All of King Henry’s wives had one thing in common, they all descended from Edward I; some by his first wife Eleanor of Castile or by his second, Marguerite of […]
STARZ ‘The White Queen’: The Kingmaker’s Daughters
Lady to Queen “Daughter of Lord Warwick “The Kingmaker” (James Frain). Anne is a timid girl who becomes a pawn in her unruly father’s struggle for power. As little girls, […]
Family of Queen Katherine: Anne of York, Lady Howard
Anne of York, Princess of England, Lady Howard (2 November 1475[1] – 23 November 1511[2]) was the fourth surviving daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort […]
