Women who would be kings

" ... Focuses on Queens Consort and through the study of the varied and extraordinary careers of the women who became Queens of France, Spain, England and Scotland, illuminates the conditions and constraints within which they operated and the extent to which they could overcome them .. examining the careers of women Regents and the female Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands. It then looks at the careers of the various women who did not succeed in ruling, many of them, like Lady Jane Grey, paid a high price for their unsuccessful bids for power. And finally it deals with the small but fascinating diverse band of sixteenth-century Queens Regend : Juana and Isabella of Castile, Jeanne d'Albret of Navarre, Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, and the tragic Mary, Queen of Scots."--from dustjacket.