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 | Sep 18, 2024 | Wife After Wife
Recently I was invited by The Spinoff (New Zealand’s favourite news and culture website) to confess my deepest, darkest book secrets, from the book I’d like to be buried with to the one I may have lied about reading. It’s all here. Enjoy!...
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 | 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...
by sue.copsey | Jan 28, 2021 | English royals, Queen, Wife After Wife
catherine of aragon Over the coming weeks I’ll be posting mini-bios of Henry VIII’s six wives. I hope these will be of interest to those reading Wife After Wife and pondering on the historical counterparts of Harry Rose’s wives. So to our first Mrs Tudor, Catherine of...
