Beginnings -- 6 July 1553: the king is dead -- Long live the queen? -- Matilda: Lady of England -- This land grew dark -- Mathilda imperatrix -- Lady of England -- Greatest in her offspring -- Eleanor: an incomparable woman -- An incomparable woman -- The war without love -- By the wrath of god, Queen of England -- Surpassing almost all the queens of this world -- Isabella: Iron Lady -- One man so loved another -- Dearest and most powerful -- "Someone has come between my husband and myself" -- Iron lady -- Margaret: a great and strong laboured woman -- Our lady sovereign -- A great and strong laboured woman -- Might and power -- The queen sustains us -- New beginnings -- 6 July 1553: long live the queen -- Not of ladies' capacity -- A queen and by the same title a king also.