Title: Shadow on the crown
Description: Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Queens, Normans, Roman, Historical fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, fiction
Places: Great Britain
People: Emma Queen, consort of Canute I, King of England (d. 1052), Ethelred II King of England (968?-1016)
Time periods: Ethelred II, 979-1016