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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey
Offered her life if she accepted Catholicism, Jane refused and, following the Wyatt rebellion of 1554 (to over- throw Queen Mary I), she went to the block as a Protestant mar- tyr. [...] when, again secretly, Mary married 'the tallest man at Court', the royal gatekeeper Thomas Keyes, and there was a possibility that she too might bear a son with a claim to the throne, she became a dan- ger, so she too was imprisoned.
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The Hard-Luck Continent
I DREAMED OF AFRICA By Kuki Gallmann. Illustrated. 315 pp. New York: Viking. $22.95. STARLINGS LAUGHING A Memoir of Africa. By June Vendall Clark. Illustrated. 304 pp. New York: William Morrow & Company. $23.
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Books: Building a Library ; Powerful women
My next choice would be Eleanor of Aquitaine. One of the most controversial and colourful personalities of the Middle Ages, she wielded power across Europe through her marriages to the future King Louis VII of France and King Henry II of England, through her own suzerainty of the great Duchy of Aquitaine, and through her sons, King Richard (the Lionheart) and King John. Imprisoned for 15 years by Henry, who could not abide her meddling, [Eleanor Roosevelt] emerged \" after his death \" a wiser woman who continued to exercise immense influence. Undoubtedly the best biography of her is Alison Weir's Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Best books... Mary S. Lovell
An enthralling narrative of women's reactions to German occupation as Paris became a place of \"power, fear, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets\".
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EXCERPT
On Saturday 2 September Unity telephoned Rudi von Simolin (later Baroness von St Paul), a Mend of Janos von Almassy and Erna Hanfstaengl, Rudi was visiting her father at Seeseiten, about an hour's drive from Munich, when Unity...
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