Warner’s book is a great joint biography and provides a valuable resource for historians. She has drawn extensively on the available sources to trace the movements and activities of the sisters, as well as their relationships with their husbands and children.

The History Lady

Edward II’s Nieces: The Clare Sisters: Powerful Pawns of the Crown was another enjoyable read on women in history that don’t always get the limelight that they deserve.

Kathryn Warner has done it once again by providing a well-written, well-researched, informative and engaging read.

I love this period of history and love learning about women’s roles, power, influences during this time. I would definitely recommend.

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Where There's Ink There's Paper

I’d still highly recommended this book for those interesting in the complex court of King Edward II and Queen Isabella.

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History of Royal Women

Kathryn Warner's new book details the lives of the Clare sisters, nieces of King Edward II. They were grand heiresses and one of them was, perhaps, a royal mistress. This book offers a fantastic window into the lives of noble medieval women. As usual, Kathryn Warner delivered a readable and well-researched book that I literally devoured! I'm looking forward for more titles from this author (as always).

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GoodReads, Constant Reader

Overall, I found this book intriguing and complex. By telling the story of Eleanor, Margaret, and Elizabeth de Clare as three biographies in one book, Warner presents a new perspective into the life and reign of Edward II. The Plantagenet family during this time was a closely knit web of power that had to rely on each other to survive or to fall. If you want a great book to introduce you to three fascinating sisters whose marriages during the reign of the infamous Edward II transformed England then, “Edward II’s Nieces The Clare Sisters: Powerful Pawns of the Crown” by Kathryn Warner is a wonderful place to start.

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Adventures of a Tudor Nerd

I don't know nearly enough about these medieval monarchs and the women who shaped and moulded them. This is a time that Bernard Cornwell's Dark Ages saga pre-dates by about three hundred years, and follows the invasion of William of Normandy, of course. Fascinating, fills in lots of gap in my measly knowledge of this era of British and European history!

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