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Book Title: Queen Anna
Series: Stuart Queens Trilogy, Book #1
Author Name: Tony Riches
Publication Date: 9th July 2026
Publisher: Preseli Press
Pages: 366
Genre: Historical Fiction
A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken...
Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place.
Surrounded by whispering courtiers and shifting alliances, Anna refuses to remain a passive pawn. When the court takes her children to raise them away from her, the young queen draws her line in the sand. From the windswept castles of Scotland to the glittering, dangerous English court, Anna is restored to her rightful place in history.
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Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors.
As well as his Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Elizabethan series.
For more information about Tony’s books please visit his website tonyriches.com and his blog, The Writing Desk and find him on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter @tonyriches.
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| My Thoughts |
One of the reasons I so like Tony Riches' historical novels is because he can be trusted to get his facts right - as far as they are known, that is, and within the boundaries of writing - creating - historical fiction. This is quite a sustained achievement over all the books he has produced.
The other reason is that I always finish one of his novels having discovered something I had been previously unaware of. In this instance the main character herself - I had no idea that Queen Anna had even existed! The Stuart King, James VI/I I knew of, of course. That his mother was the ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots - tick, knew that. That he had children: tick, knew that as well. (Charles I, naturally). But it had never occurred to me to even look up the name of his wife, let alone where she had come from or the circumstances of their (dismal!) marriage.
And what an eye-opener this story was! Poor Anna - I felt so sorry for the poor fourteen-year-old lass ... even sorrier for her as she grew with her loneliness expanding as the years passed. What a brave woman she was!
Mr Riches has a skilled knack of bringing these relatively unknown characters to life. A knack that is a well-honed talent.
Worth reading
**** 4 stars
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