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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>List of Illustrations</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Preface</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xiii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>PART I BEGINNINGS</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>One July 6, 1553: The King Is Dead</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>5</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Two Long Live the Queen?</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>25</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>PART II MATILDA: LADY OF ENGLAND</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Three This Land Grew Dark</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>39</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(12)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Four Mathilda Imperatrix</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>51</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Five Lady of England</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>73</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(27)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Six Greatest in Her Offspring</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>100</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(33)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>PART III ELEANOR: AN INCOMPARABLE WOMAN</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Seven An Incomparable Woman</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>133</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(31)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Eight The War Without Love</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>164</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Nine By the Wrath of God, Queen of England</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>184</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Ten Surpassing Almost All the Queens of This World</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>194</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(37)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>PART IV ISABELLA: IRON LADY</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Eleven One Man So Loved Another</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>231</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(25)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Twelve Dearest and Most Powerful</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>256</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(27)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Thirteen "Someone Has Come Between My Husband and Myself"</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>283</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Fourteen Iron Lady</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>303</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>PART V MARGARET: A GREAT AND STRONG LABOURED WOMAN</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Fifteen Our Lady Sovereign</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>329</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Sixteen A Great and Strong Laboured Woman</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>347</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Seventeen Might and Power</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>362</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Eighteen The Queen Sustains Us</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>388</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(27)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>PART VI NEW BEGINNINGS</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Nineteen July 6, 1553: Long Live the Queen</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>415</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(15)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Twenty Not of Ladies' Capacity</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>430</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(21)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Twenty-One A Queen and by the Same Title a King Also</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>451</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(10)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Note on Sources and Further Reading</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>461</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(8)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>469</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

xv, 480 pages : color illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

This volume presents the story of the so-called "she-wolves" that paved the way for the Golden Age of Elizabethan rule that followed after them. These early queens of England and France (Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, and Mary Tudor) demonstrated through intelligence, strength and sheer will power how to rule without male support

She-wolves : the women who ruled England before Elizabeth