A review by lauragill
Forgotten Royal Women: The King and I by Erin Lawless

2.0

So many typos, so many women left out. You want obscure royal women? What about St. Hilda of Whitby? Eanflaed queen of Northumbria and her daughter Aelfflaed who was dedicated to God upon birth and was Hilda's successor as abbess of Whitby? What about Ealhswith wife of Alfred the Great? Or Cynethryth wife of Offa of Mercia? And those are just the Anglo Saxon women. No mention of Edward III's favorite daughter Isabella who married Enguerrand de Coucy, or her young sister who died of the Black Death on the way to marry a Spanish prince. What about Elizabeth of York's sisters, most of whom ended up in convents after Henry VII became king. I would much prefer some serious scholarship to the overly colloquial style.