Mary Queen of Scots, Drama Queen

Mary Queen of Scots, Drama Queen

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...
Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

  I was invited by The Spinoff to write about how I brought rakehell Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe into the 21st century. (More time writing about Kit? Well, yes I can do that!) Here’s the result (make yourself a cuppa, it’s quite long …)...
Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr

 SURVIVING HENRY (This article first appeared in Royals Monthly magazine.) The beautiful ‘Melton Constable’ or ‘Hastings’ portrait of Catherine Parr CATHERINE PARR WAS THE LAST of Henry VIII’s six wives, and Queen of England from 1543 to 1547. But most famously, she...