Author and historian Melanie Clegg has a degree in History of Art from the University of Nottingham and has written several books about history, most recently biographies of Marie de Guise, Henrietta Anne of England and Margaret Tudor for Pen and Sword Books. She lives in Bristol with her family.
""Clegg's book humanizes these history influencers, who were in turn influenced by their times, and although I was already familiar with the major players, my perspective on them deepened as I read this thoroughly engrossing book."" --Kathryn Atwood