About this Event
We are excited to welcome historian and biographer Emily Murdoch Perkins for an evening of ‘what if’ history as we celebrate the publication of Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been.
What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne?
We may think of princesses as dutiful, marital conveniences to build alliances, wearing long flowing dresses, but the eldest daughters of our kings have been very different. Political intriguers. Abducted nuns who demanded divorces. Murderers, even.
As Emily will discuss this evening, princesses have been mothers willing to risk anything for their children, wives who followed their husbands to the very ends of earth, and spinsters who demanded their intellectual and societal freedom. So, why did sons come to be valued higher than daughters? And just how would England have looked under a royal matriarchy?
Join us for what promises to be a most intriguing royal evening!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
London - Hatchards - Piccadilly, 187 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 10.00