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Lisa Hilton

Biography

Lisa Hilton

Lisa Hilton is the acclaimed author of THE REAL QUEEN OF FRANCE: Athénais and Louis XIV, MISTRESS PEACHUM'S PLEASURE, QUEENS CONSORT: England's Medieval Queens, and THE HORROR OF LOVE. She is the author of three novels: the bestselling WOLVES IN WINTER; THE HOUSE WITH BLUE SHUTTERS, which was shortlisted in the UK for the Commonwealth Fiction prize; and THE STOLEN QUEEN. She was educated at Oxford University, and lives in central London.

Lisa Hilton

Books by Lisa Hilton

Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince
by Lisa Hilton - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “weak and feeble woman’s body” to do so for political gain. But in ELIZABETH, historian Lisa Hilton offers ample evidence why those famous words should not be taken at face value. With new research out of France, Italy, Russia and Turkey, Hilton’s fresh interpretation is of a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince and used Machiavellian statecraft to secure that position.