A good review, my favorite abbey, and the one Tudor I like

I have good news about The Land Beyond the Sea; we got another favorable review, this one from Publisher’s Weekly, which I will post as soon as it appears in their magazine next week. If I have already shared this news, sorry about that—my memory seems to have gone into hibernation for the winter. Apologies again for another long absence. I’ve been suffering from severe headaches for sometime now, and we think we may have finally been able to get a diagnosis; apparently, I have an acute sinus infection. So I hope to be able to post more regularly once the antibiotics start to do their magic. Meanwhile, I am enclosing a link to a fascinating story and video about one of my favorite places on earth, Mont Saint Michel; the story is in French, but Google offers the option of translating it into English. And here is a catch-up Today in History post.
On January 15th, 1478, a rather sad marriage took place, between the second son of Edward IV, Richard, and Anne Mowbray, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk. He was not yet five years old; she was around the same age. The idea of marriage between such young children is something hard for us to fathom today, and their wedding seems even more pathetic because we know that they both died so young, Anne three years later in 1481 and Richard most likely in 1183. Sad.
Those pushy Tudors crashed the party, too, for on January 15th in 1535, Henry VIII declared himself the head of the English Church and on that date in 1559, his brilliant daughter Elizabeth was crowned as Queen of England. Elizabeth has been well-served by writers in our time, for she has not one but two splendid novels about her life and reign. Legacy by Susan Kay covers her entire life and Margaret George’s Elizabeth I focuses on her twilight years after the Spanish Armada; I couldn’t convince Margaret that they should have called it The Lioness in Winter. 😊
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