Join us this month and explore the love stories of the past.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing with you our chats to various historians and we’ll be covering all the ways that Royals can come together, be it through arranged marriage, secret engagements or chance meetings. 

We Found Love Right Where We Are

On this, the second episode of our Valentines series, we’re focussing on the theme of Arranged Marriages and those couples who managed to find love within one. There will be several episodes with this theme, this time it's the medieval edition.

To help us get to know there couples better, we invited Chris Riley and Gemma Hollman.

Chris will tell us about the love between William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, as well as Edward I and Eleanor of Castile. Gemma will tell us about Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, the oft-forgotten couple.

Chris writes for The Historians Magazine, please find it here:

https://thehistoriansmagazine.com/

Please find Gemma's book on Edward III and Philippa (as well as Edward's later mistress) here:

https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-queen-and-the-mistress/9780750993692/

For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroque.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

To book a walking tour with Natalie and talk more about the medieval Royal London, please visit

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/

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