HeyJaredElizabeth St.John
Novel writer. Memory curator. Story sleuth. HistoricalFiction TheLydiardArchives More stuff on my website: www.elizabethjstjohn.com and www.TheLydiardArchives.co.uk
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Plundering the Dying Queen’s Jewels (opens the original)
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My curiosity started with Pierre Hugon, one of those intriguing footnote mentions that authors love to stumble across. Queen Anna of Denmark died at Hampton Court in March 1619, leaving no will. In the chaos and grief of those final hours, her favourite servant Pierre apparently helped himself to her jewels and personal belongings. His defence, when it all came out, was so far-fetched it was almost believable: Queen Anna had commanded, from her deathbed, that her possessions were to go to the Ca
So, I’m launching this new book a bit differently. What do you think? (opens the original)
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I published my first book ten years ago, in a very different world. It’s really come home to me these last few months as I pulled out my “marketing stuff to do” spreadsheet and worked with my beta readers, cover designer, and editor to get The Queen’s Tears into shape. So far, all familiar territory, albeit still stressful. But then, approaching the marketing, and already realising that the 90% drop in sales I’d experienced in the past three years was never going to recover in an over-saturated
The Little Boy Who Lived in the Tower of London (opens the original)
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Allen Apsley was born on 28 August 1616, the first son of Sir Allen Apsley and his young wife Lucy St John, daughter of Sir John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire. Through the patronage resulting from a very advantageous marriage with the Villiers family, his father was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London by James I on 3 March 1617. Young Allen grew up inside one of England’s most formidable institutions; a city within a city that housed over a thousand families and lay outside the l
Lady Di’s Deplorable Son (opens the original)
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There is a certain scoundrel who haunts every family tree, lurking between the respectable entries like that peculiar uncle that no one wants to sit next to at Christmas dinner. In the St.John family, that man is George Richard, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke.<
The Puritan and the King's Venus (opens the original)
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Colonel John Hutchinson has always been a delightful contradiction. He certainly was a Puritan – a godly Protestant. But if that conjures an image of a dour Parliamentarian suspicious of beauty and pleasure, think again. He loved music, played the viol, sported a beautiful head of abundant long hair, rocked a red suit of clothes, improved his house with the latest fashionable windows, and collected paintings. And after helping send Charles I to the scaffold, he bought one of the late king’s most
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