📖 Then there is the gothic element contained within The Three Musketeers, and it is centred on Milady. A dark and stormy night indeed ! dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-su…

🏰 A bit of Milady spookiness for the weekend Dr Josephine Wilkinson: ‘The Supernatural and the Ethereal in the Characte... dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-su…

🎠 What was life like for the Henriette, a young English girl making her way at the court of Louis XIV 'Henriette, a Sketch of a Childhood' by me 📒 melanievtaylor.co.uk/2021/12/06/hen…

🖊️The Elizabeth Longford Brief Lives 2025 Essay Award has just launched – offering £2000 for an outstanding short essay in historical biography. elhb.uk/wp-content/upl…

📔 Apollo Abandoned - My review of Gérard Sabatier's 'Versailles ou la disgrâce d’Apollon' (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017) academia.edu/62934853/Apoll…

🍰 D'Artagnan wishes you a very happy weekend !

👑I am thrilled to announce my new book - 1483: A Game of Kings - which will be published in 2027 The History Press Andrew Lownie Stay tuned for updates !

📒 Three quarters into the first draft of my new WIP : 1483: A Game of Kings.

📘 Beautiful frontispiece from the Mémoires de Philippe de Commynes. Gallica BnF

⛪️Memories of living in York - St Michael le Belfrey at the end of my street. It was here that Guy Fawkes was christened in 1570.

💛16 June 1644. Birth of Henriette, the future duchesse d'Angleterrs. Read my piece about her early years here: melanievtaylor.co.uk/2021/12/06/hen…

📓 The next step in my WIP - '1483: A Game of Kings' - brings me to the story of the Princes in the Tower - wish me luck !

🌧️The Man in the Iron Mask wishes you a happy Sunday. The book on the left is the US edition and the one on the right is the UK edition. The text is the same in both ☺

🍯24 June marks the traditional birthday of John the Baptist. Find out about this fascinating man in my book 🐜

25 June 1673. Louis XIV at the camp outside Maastrict by Van der Meulen. One of the causalties of the siege will be d'Artagnan. 'Vue de la ville de Maastricht' by Daniel Marot shows the siege. The red x marks the demi-lune at the porte de Tongres where d'Artagnan was killed.

🍷The Musketeers enjoy a quiet Sunday night drink.

🥃30 June 1670. The tragic - and mysterious - death of Henriette duchesse d'Orlèans. My article in History Today explains what might have happened: historytoday.com/archive/histor…

🤖Hell's bells - is this the new ultimate academic accolade ? An AI review of my piece 'The Supernatural and the Ethereal in the Character of Milady de Winter.'

🚪2 July 1652. During the Fronde, at Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine, La Grande Mademoiselle allows Condé and his troops into the city. She also turns the Bastille's cannons on the royal forces. The young Louis XIV can only watch from a distance as his army is fired upon.

👑 6 July 1483. The coronation of Richard III and Anne Neville, an event that finds its way into my new book, '1483 : a Game of Kings.' The History Press