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Leanda de Lisle

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Leanda de Lisle was educated at St Mary’s Convent Ascot. In 1982 she graduated from Somerville College Oxford having read history and in 1990 she completed an MBA – her thesis was on political marketing.

Leanda has written columns for Country Life, the Sunday and Daily Express, The Spectator, The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Telegraph, the New Statesman.

Leanda’s AFTER ELIZABETH (published in the U.K. as SUN RISING), which focuses on the period between March 1603, when Elizabeth I died, to July 1603 when James VI of Scotland was crowned James I of England, was published by HarperCollins in 2005, who also published THE SISTERS WHO WOULD BE QUEEN: THE TRAGEDY OF MARY, KATHERINE AND LADY JANE GREY in January 2009.

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Books by Leanda de Lisle

Average rating: 3.82 · 822 ratings · 136 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Sisters Who Would Be Queen 3.87 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions	My rating:
	After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England 3.54 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Catholics And Their Houses by Leanda de Lisle, Peter Stanford 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse”
― Leanda de Lisle, The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

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Which book would you like to read for our December 15 - January 15 European Royalty group read?

Three Maids for a Crown: A Novel of the Grey Sisters by Ella March Chase

16 votes, 34.8%

Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir

14 votes, 30.4%

The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle

10 votes, 21.7%

Unicorn's Blood by Patricia Finney

3 votes, 6.5%

The Queen's Lady by Barbara Kyle

3 votes, 6.5%

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