Queens of the Conquest

A captivating, sweeping saga of England’s medieval queens, from the New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing” ( The Boston Globe ) “Polished [and] fascinating . . . It was a man’s world but, as Weir convincingly shows, the five queens wielded real power in front of as well as behind the throne.”— Sunday Express The lives of England’s medieval queens were packed with incident—love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare—but the