Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman Conquest

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The very gratifying manner in which the volumes containing the first series of the Lives of the Queens of England have been dis tinguished, both by the critical press and the public, afi'ords our best encouragement for the introduction of the more important suc cession of the Tudor and Stewart queens. These princesses ap proximating nearer to our own times, are more identified with the sympathies of the generality of readers than their majeuic prede cessors the anglo-norman and Plantagenet queens. The six con sorts of Henry VIIL are peculiarly interesting from being interwoven with the events of the Reformation, and their lives form altogether the most remarkable chain of biographies that has yet appeared in the annals of female royalty.