by sue.copsey | Apr 4, 2021 | Sister to Sister
Firstly an apology, for giving my reincarnated Robert Dudley the surname Studley in Sister to Sister. I see you wince. But I couldn’t help it. When I look at those portraits of Elizabeth’s favourite, the love of her life, I see a man a little bit in love with himself....
by sue.copsey | Mar 20, 2021 | Sister to Sister
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 …)...
by sue.copsey | Feb 6, 2021 | Sister to Sister
queen mary I (bloody mary) Bloody Mary – one of the most notorious rulers in English history. The clue is in the name. Mary Tudor (1516–1588) is the character on whom the elder of the two sisters in Sister to Sister, Maria Rose, is based. She was the first English...
by sue.copsey | Feb 5, 2021 | Sister to Sister
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 | Aug 2, 2024 | Ace, Sister to Sister, Wife After Wife
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...
