[caption id="attachment_23104528" align="alignleft" width="189"] Empress Matilda[/caption] When I began to write Empress Matilda’s story I wondered if anybody even knew who this twelfth century princess was. Most have heard of the conflicts between Cromwell and Charles I or that between King Harold and William the Conqueror, but how many, if asked, would be able to tell you about Matilda and the Civil War that raged through England during the mid-twelfth century. Why would I write a nove...
