She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
he boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their failure could no longer be mistaken. When Edward VI - Henry VIII`s longed - for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female. In 1553, England was about to experience the `monstrous regiment` - the unnatural rule - of a woman. But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years before Edward`s death, Matilda, daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conquerer, came...
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Дата выхода: июль 2011