![]() ![]() Popular history “seeks to inform and entertain a large general audience… Dramatic storytelling often prevails over analysis, style over substance, simplicity over complexity, and grand generalization over careful qualification,” according to one source. Weir’s writings have been classified as popular history, a genre that has been criticized by academics. ![]() Weir has written two volumes about England’s Medieval Queens: Queens of Conquest (Random House, 2017) and Queens of the Crusades (Random House, 5 November 2020). The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings and Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings, the first full non-fiction biography of Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyn’s sister, were published the following year.Įlizabeth of York – A Tudor Queen and Her World, a biography of Henry VIII’s mother, Elizabeth of York, was published in 2013. In 2010, the novel Traitors of the Tower was published. The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn was published in 2009, and Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess was published in 2007. ![]() She wrote Elizabeth the Queen (1998) (also known as The Life of Elizabeth I in the United States), Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England (1999), Henry VIII: The King and His Court (2001), Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley (2003), and Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England (2003). ![]()
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