An account of the lives of six princesses of the House of Stuart who lived through the social and political upheavals of the 17th century. Explores how their lives were interwoven with those of their male counterparts, against a background of war, politics and high intrigue.
"I did not like big ships... I was secretly afraid" admits Violet Jessop in this unique eyewitness account of the most written about disaster of the twentieth century. Joining the Royal Mail Line in 1908 at the age of twenty-one, Violet Jessop spent her antire career at sea, travelling on more than
