queens

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queens

Marie Antoinette

1981
A biography of the consort of Louis XVI, King of France, until her execution during the French Revolution in 1793.

The life and times of Eleanor of Aquitaine

2010
Presents the life and accomplishments of the twelfth-century ruler, who became the queen of France and then England.

Queen of Sheba

2009
Examines the life and achievements of the Queen of Sheba, discussing who she was, he journey through the desert, the lack of proof of her existence, legends about her, and other related topics.

The life and times of Cleopatra

2005
Presents the life and accomplishments of the Egyptian queen who maintained her kingdom through her alliances with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.

Alosha

2004
Ali Warner stumbles on a plot by a neighboring dimension to invade and destroy the earth and finds out that she has been chosen to intervene and save the human race.

Isabella of Castile

Queen on horseback
1991
Examines the life and accomplishments of the Spanish queen who brought political and religious unity to her kingdom and made it possible for Columbus to sail west.

The White princess

cousins' war
When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth Field after the last Plantagenet king's (Richard III) death, he knows he must marry Elizabeth of York, and unify a country divided by war for nearly twenty years. Elizabeth of York is the daughter of the White Queen Elizabeth, mother of the young princes in the Tower of London whose fate remains decisively unknown to this day. But Elizabeth of York is in love with the dead Richard III, slain by her new husband, Henry Tudor, on Bosworth Field. And meanwhile, imposters who claim to be the York prince in the Tower threaten the Tudor monarchy with relentless consistency.

The Forgotten queen

2013
Married by proxy to James IV, Margaret Tudor, the daughter of Henry VII, becomes the Queen of Scotland and, after a tragic loss, falls victim to the attentions of the Earl of Angus--a move that brings Scotland to the brink of anarchy.

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