The resilient and clever woman who should have been the first Queen of England

400 years before Queen Mary I took the throne, the Empress Matilda came within a hairs breadth of being anointed the first reigning Queen of England

The resilient and clever woman who should have been the first Queen of England

400 years before Queen Mary I took the throne, the Empress Matilda came within a hairs breadth of being anointed the first reigning Queen of England