The Royal Romantic

Isabelle is back with a criminally underappreciated royal lady

Hello Royal Clubbers!

I hope you have a spring in your step as the sunshine is starting to appear ahead of the new season. If not, never fear, I have the perfect antidote to your winter blues… the bafflingly unheralded Emma of Normandy!

Despite Emma’s credentials as one time Queen of England, Queen consort to two kings, mother of two more and stepmother to another, many people have no idea who she is.

But let me enlighten you, because as well as the aforementioned achievements, at a time when women had no rights, Emma was also one of richest women in the country. Furthermore, she even had a hand in the events that took place in every pub quizzer’s favourite battle: 1066’s Battle of Hastings. You could say she was the ultimate Middle Ages feminist icon!

Read on for more on epic Emma’s life and to discover why she is such a fitting candidate for The Royal Romantic treatment…