Honourable Chains
Alice Hunt, 9 July 2026
Queen Catherine’s Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England
by Sophie Shorland.
Atlantic, 332 pp., £11.45, June 2025,978 1 83895 641 7 Show More
by Sophie Shorland.
Atlantic, 332 pp., £11.45, June 2025,
Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture and Patronage
edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael C. Questier.
Macmillan, 368 pp., £119.99, January 2025,978 3 031 38815 6 Show More
edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael C. Questier.
Macmillan, 368 pp., £119.99, January 2025,
The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza
edited by Maria Hayward.
Boydell and Brewer, 540 pp., £59.99, November 2024,978 1 910653 14 2 Show More
edited by Maria Hayward.
Boydell and Brewer, 540 pp., £59.99, November 2024,
“... was one of the best and purest women who ever shared the throne of England.’ To this, Sophie Shorland replies ‘How boring!’ Shorland would rather talk about Catherine’s ‘love of parties, fun and gambling’. Queen Catherine’s Court presents her as a ‘trouser-wearing tastemaker’ who ‘defied ... ”
