On a special episode of the Daily Mail's Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things podcast, historian Alice Loxton joins Kate Williams to discuss Eleanor of Castile, a Spanish Queen whose marriage to English ...

These two books arrive from opposite ends of the literary map -- one a medieval biography structured around a contemporary walk through England, the other a late entry in a long-running urban fantasy ...

Eleanor of Castile was a spunky 13th century Queen of England who was as hated as she was headstrong. Known contemporarily to some as the Shadow Queen, her life was a dramatic one—full of war and ...