Regina: A New History of Women and PowerFrom Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them. Stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, and yet their legacies have been almost entirely constructed by the words and images of men. In Regina, celebrated historian Kate Williams leads us deep into the world of queens, empresses, princesses, mistresses and ladies in waiting, uncovering how

poisoning the kingdom’s roots and threatening to tear the already shattered realm in two

And it isn’t long before the passengers begin to turn on each other

and the temptations of the carefree kingdom of the spirits propels this latter-day Lazarus's story

And when the world declares her a wicked witch

She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Police Judiciaire

and funny feast for the imagination

no sanctuary for the infirm

He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to

But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything

' LOUISE CANDLISH

Nearly called back to the land of the dead

but there is also a pattern