by sue.copsey | Dec 3, 2025 | book reviews, English royals, history books, King
London is simmering with unrest. Protests, some turning violent, erupt in the streets around Whitehall and Westminster. They’re mostly about religion and taxes, while within Parliament the power struggles between reformers and conservatives are coming to a head. King...
by sue.copsey | Dec 3, 2025 | book reviews, English royals, history books, King, Queen
Over the past year or so I’ve been reviewing history books for the New Zealand Listener. Safe to say, 2025 has been a great year for non-fiction history books which, while meticulously researched and written by stellar historians, have stopped taking themselves...
by sue.copsey | Oct 22, 2025 | English royals
FacebookTwitterShare Jane Boleyn (Lady Rochford) as portrayed in the TV series Wolf Hall FacebookTwitterShare (This is an edited version of an article I wrote for Royals Monthly. The relationship between Jane Boleyn and Anne is the mystery around which...
by sue.copsey | Oct 21, 2025 | Ace, English royals, King
(This blog post is an edited version of a piece I wrote for the Austraiian magazine Royals Monthly.) The legend of King Arthur, that great warrior king who united Britain against the Saxon invaders, has captivated people for centuries. The myth speaks to us of...
by sue.copsey | Oct 3, 2025 | English royals, King, Notorious
(This is an edited version of an article I wrote for Royals Monthly magazine. Edward IV is the English king on whom I based the character Teddy Snow in Notorious, my whodunnit based on the mystery of the Princes in the Tower.) Edward IV, painted in c1520, about 40...
