Young Queens: The gripping, intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots

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Foreign newspapers noted how the young princess's chances of becoming "Queen-Regnant" were now better than had been those of the eight-year-old Queen Victoria a century earlier - the daughter of a fourth son with two uncles ahead of her.

Chang weaves] together the threads of emotional motivations, the realities of female bodies and complex European politics into a vibrant tapestry .Born in 1966, Young was a boarder at Reading School, before working for Barclays Bank between 1985 and 1997, where he rose to the Head Office, becoming the bank's Deputy Head of Corporate Public Relations. The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots – three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Sent by King Francis to Rome, he arrived at the Strozzi villa sometime in 1525, when Caterina was just about six years old. Nor did they match Marguerite of Navarre’s literary accomplishments or Renée de France’s important patronage of Calvin.

The children of the marriage would be French aristocrats, the Medici now a hair’s breadth from royalty. After a government commission recommended reducing miners’ wages, the stage was set for an all-out strike of miners and other workers covered by the TUC, including railway and transport workers. This had been the path charted for Catherine’s mother, for countless girls of Catherine’s time and place. Princess Elizabeth - daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York (the future King and Queen of England) waves from her carriage as she is driven around London in 1928.The Queen needed all the steady humility she could muster to withstand the avalanche of abdication-like tremors: Charles, Diana, Camilla, the Windsor fire, Andrew-with-Fergie, Andrew-without-Fergie - with the unexpected tweak-in-the-tail delivered by the departure to the US of grandson Harry in 2020. Like Mary II, Jane too was accused of stealing a throne – that of her cousin, Mary Tudor, who moved swiftly to retake it and send the teenage Jane first to the Tower, and then to the executioner’s block.

After Christmas at Sandringham, they went to Royal Lodge in Windsor, the pale pink walls painted green to fool enemy bombers. Like Churchill, they slept in ‘siren suits’, zip-up all-in-one jumpsuits designed for warmth and practicality in bombing raids.Elena Woodacre does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The little girl raised among her horses and dogs now had to prepare herself for the challenge of eventually becoming "Grandma England" - and "Grandma" of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland too. The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots – three queens exercising power in a world dominated by men. Elizabeth Tudor was in and out of the line of succession to her famous father Henry VIII during her childhood.