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Thank you Topping bookstore!
You can't beat reading a physical book, and its all the more special as an author when your local bookstore stocks your titles. Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely has hosted a book event for me in the past with The Shop Girls and I am immensely grateful for...
The Royal Maid Finds Love book launch at Cyfarthfa Castle
I am thrilled to be taking Rosa's story back to Merthyr Tydfil where she was born for the launch of The Royal Maid Finds Love when it is released by Penguin on Thursday 22nd October. It is the second in a two book series and follows on from Secrets of the Royal Maid...
Royal Wolferton Station for Sale
An era in the history of the royal station at Wolferton on the Sandringham estate has come to an end following the sad passing earlier this year of Richard Brown. He bought the Downside twenty-five years ago and lovingly restored it to its former glory, opening the...
My Lord Taverners Author Lunch
I'm honoured to be the guest speaker at the Lord's Taverners Cambridge summer lunch on Monday, 3 August - and you are welcome to join me. I shall be speaking about my Royal Station Master's Daughters series, and, for the first, time, my latest Royal Maids books at the...
Royal Maid Rosa joins Queen Elizabeth’s special birthday celebrations
While the King and Queen welcomed centenarians to Buckingham Palace to mark Queen Elizabeth's 100th birthday on 21 April, I couldn't help thinking back to the Queen's 90th birthday garden party when guests included my rosy cheeked royal maid, Rosa Edwards. Both Queen...
Queen Elizabeth and Rosa Edward’s 100th birthday tributes
Two special babies from vastly different backgrounds were born in 1926. While one, a princess, was destined to be our beloved Queen Elizabeth II, in contrast Rosa Edwards was born to a life of poverty, a poor pit miner's daughter in Merthyr Tydfil, never imagining...
Secrets of the Royal Maid is published today!
After months of research and writing, I can happily say that Secrets of the Road Maid is out today with my new pen name, Annie Seymour. It's been a joy and honour to write Rosa's real rags to riches story about leaving behind life of poverty in Merthyr Tydfil to...
Wolferton’s new Royal Resident
Harry Saward is most probably turning in his grave after Wolferton’s newest royal resident moved in under a cloak of darkness. Shamed Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is presently lying low at Wood Farm. It is a stone’s throw from Sandringham House where the royals gather...
When President Zelensky came to Sandringham
While the world watched in shock and disbelief as President Zelensky suffered humiliation from President Trump and VP Vance, the Ukrainian leader’s pain must have been felt strongly by King Charles who welcomed him at Sandringham House at the weekend. It was a display...