Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages, and also one of the most controversial. Having inherited a vast feudal domain stretching from the Loire to the Pyrenees, she was one of the greatest heiresses in history. This biography offers a perspective on this woman.

The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his brother Richard, is one of the fascinating murder mysteries in English history. This book re-examines the evidence - including that against the Princes' uncle, Richard III. It reconstructs the chain of events and reveals how, why and by whose order they died.

A fascinating historical document as well as an important contribution to the literature of heraldry

No period in British history retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. Here, the author sees the key to the Tudor world as religion - the new world of Protestantism and its battle with the the old world of uniform Catholicism.