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Ashdown-Hill, John, author.

Royal marriage secrets : consorts & concubines, bigamists & bastards / by John Ashdown-Hill.

Stroud : The History Press, 2013.

255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Examines questions of love and marriage in the English royal family, and the evolution of marriage practice in England. How were royal consorts chosen? Did royal brides use witchcraft? Where did people get married in the past? The answers to such questions provide the fascinating context within which oft-disputed royal marriages must be understood.

Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- History.

The background. The evolution of marriage ; Medieval marriage practice ; Royal marriages 150-1330 ; Suitable status ; Irregular royal affairs ; Summary of the background information -- Secret and bigamous medieval royal marriages. The love-matches of Edward III's children ; Secret weddings and witchcraft in the house of Lancaster ; Talbot's daughter and the grey mare ; The Infanta and the nyght crowe ; Review of secret and bigamous medieval royal marriages -- Reformation, registration, cohabitation. The Virgin Queen ; Old Rowley and Mrs. Barlow ; Dr. and Mrs. Thomson ; Review of alleged "Tudor" and Stuart secret royal marriages -- The Act of Settlement, the Marriage Act, and the Royal Marriages Act. Queen Hannah and Princess Olive ; Princess Fiz ; Mrs. Brown ; Murders and Whitechapel and mysteries in Malta ; Review of secret marriage allegations in the modern monarchy ; Conclusions: The queens-that-might-have-been.

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