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 | 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...
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 | English royals, Queen, Sister to Sister, Wife After Wife
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 | 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 | 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...
