It is the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis. It is well known in polite society, in the drawing rooms of the ...

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The relationship between my grandmother and her mother was very important and indeed crucial to her childhood and the very ...

Extraordinary and thrilling … This story should be known to every man, woman and child’ – Lemn Sissay In 1868, British troops ...

Author Caitlin Davies is a novelist, non-fiction writer, award-winning journalist and teacher. She is the author of six novels, six non-fiction books, and several short stories. Queens of the ...

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