Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780312338015 (0312338015)
Publish date: September 4th 2007
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 554
Edition language: English
Nice survey of the six sovereign Queens of England. Slow moving through the Tudor history, but that's probably because I've read so much on the Tudors it seemed redundant. I hadn't read much on the Stuarts and beyond, so I found those sections more interesting.
Covers the six women who ruled England in their own name: Mary I, Elizabeth I, Mary II, Anne, Victoria, and Elizabeth II. It's interesting, but not much more than a brief description of each. Fine if you don't know much about these women, but rather so-so if you do. Not really worth it for me. For t...