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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
