by sue.copsey | May 1, 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 | Apr 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...
by sue.copsey | Jan 17, 2025 | Ace, English royals, Queen, Sister to Sister
(This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Royals Monthly, December 2024) Picture the scene. It’s 1559, and at Whitehall Palace, England’s newly crowned Queen Elizabeth, the vivacious, redheaded daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is dancing with...
by sue.copsey | Dec 20, 2024 | Wife After Wife
James II c1690, by an unknown artist According to reports in the UK media, Rachel Reeves, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, has resolved to replace the portraits of men that hang in the state room of her new official home, No.11 Downing Street, with portraits of,...
by sue.copsey | Oct 19, 2024 | Sister to Sister
This is an edited version of a piece for Royals Monthly mag. Mary is reincarnated as Eliza’s treacherous cousin Mackenzie James in my novel Sister to Sister. • Mary, Queen of Scots is probably Scotland’s best-known historical figure. The life of this...