Queens Consort: England’s Medieval Queens

Acclaimed author Lisa Hilton came to the Tower of London exploring the lives of the twenty women crowned queen between 1066 and 1503, from Matilda of Flanders, the Conqueror’s queen, to Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor consort. Occupying a unique position in the turbulent world of medieval state-craft, English queens had to negotiate a role that combined tremendous influence with terrifying vulnerability.

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