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 | 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,...
