Kate Williams: Women & Power

From Cleopatra and Boudica to Grace Kelly and Princess Diana, stories about royal women form some of our most foundational myths about femininity, yet their legacies have been almost entirely constructed by men. Now in Regina, celebrated historian Kate Williams uncovers how the ambitions of queens, empresses, mistresses and more were shaped, celebrated and often thwarted. The Rival Queens author and University of Reading professor returns to Henley to share this thrilling, globe-spanning new history.