The Glentaggart family in A Noble Cunning suffers from anti-Catholic religious persecution, which lasted for over 200 years in Britain. But the persecution of that family and thousands of other British Catholics could have ended long before it did, if King James II had had his way!...
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How did King Richard III acquire such an evil reputation that he became one of Shakespeare’s great villains? ...
Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was a primary force in the establishment of the Protestant faith in England whose life ended tragically, burned at the stake by Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”)....
Laudanum, a mixture of opium and alcohol, features prominently towards the end of my novel A Noble Cunning. My heroine needs a substance that will put a dangerous man to sleep at a critical moment in her plot to save her husband’s life. What was it?...
Perhaps without fully realizing it as events developed, Princess Anne Stuart played a role in the series of events that brought a German who spoke no English from Hanover to London to become king of Great Britain in 1714. The trouble began with the birth of a royal baby in 1688....
Many of you have seen or heard of the 2018 black comedy film The Favorite, nominated for 10 Academy awards, about the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14), the last of the Stuart monarchs, and wondered whether any of the more…
