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 | Jun 10, 2024 | 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 | Mar 4, 2024 | Ace
Two weeks until release! While we wait, I thought I’d share what inspired this novel, a retelling of the tale of King Arthur, set in post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain, and how it came to be an Arthurian-Tudor mash-up. This is an extract from the author note at the...
by sue.copsey | Jan 14, 2024 | Ace, English royals, King
IN IN King Arthur, awoken in QUEEN, KING, ACE January 2024 Hello and Happy New Year! Not long now until I unleash my latest historical (I use the term loosely) retelling, QUEEN, KING, ACE. It’s a stand-alone novel, but if you’ve read my other retellings...
by sue.copsey | Feb 5, 2021 | Ace, English royals, Queen, Sister to Sister, Wife After Wife
Elizabeth – the virgin queen (?) Elizabeth (recreated in Sister to Sister as Eliza Rose) was famous for her virginity, while her father, Henry VIII … wasn’t. Nevertheless, she was a chip off the old block. Like Henry, Elizabeth morphed from a beautiful,...
by sue.copsey | Jun 15, 2020 | Ace, English royals, King, Wife After Wife
From golden god to obese tyrant – the evolution of Henry VIII In the run up to the UK publication of Wife After Wife in July, I’ve been thinking (again! Not obsessed – no, not at all) about how Henry VIII changed over the course of his reign, both in temperament...
