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Also by Alison Weir:

The Boleyn Secret, June 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Queens of the Age of Chivalry, December 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The King's Pleasure, June 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last White Rose, April 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Queens of the Age of Chivalry, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last White Rose, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Queens of the Crusades, December 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen, May 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait, May 2020
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Queens of the Conquest, September 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Queens of the Conquest, October 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Elizabeth of York, December 2013
Paperback
Mary Boleyn, October 2011
Hardcover
Captive Queen, July 2010
Hardcover
The Lady in the Tower, January 2010
Hardcover
The Lady Elizabeth, November 2008
Paperback
Innocent Traitor, January 2008
Trade Size (reprint)
The Wars Of The Roses, July 1996
Paperback (reprint)

QUEENS OF THE CONQUEST
By: Alison Weir

Ballantine Books
October 2017
On Sale: September 26, 2017
592 pages
ISBN: 1101966661
EAN: 9781101966662
Kindle: B01NAOZJVY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Other Editions
Trade Size (reprint - September 2018)

Historical

This epic book brings to vivid life five powerful Norman queens, from Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, to the Empress Matilda, mother to King Henry II, founder of the Plantagenet dynasty.

The lives of England’s medieval queens were packed with tragedy, betrayal, love, warfare, adultery and mystery—but their stories are obscured by centuries of myth and prejudice against these powerful women.

These Norman queens were actually more autonomous and influential than most later queens, since they actually participated in battles and led troops of their own. By joining her husband William the Conqueror in the battle to take control of England, Matilda of Flanders set a precedent for her female descendants to continue to ride onto the battlefield and maintain their own separate armies.