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The main purpose of the Queens-Haven Publications website is to present and promote the research of North Lincolnshire historian and lecturer Marilyn Roberts, but it is also hoped that information to be found or accessed from here will be of help and interest to all who have a love of English history, the history of the Royal Family and a fascination with the complexities of British Royal and Noble genealogy.

Marilyn Roberts was born in North Lincolnshire and has lived there for the greater part of her life. She was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester, and the University of Hull, from where in the 1970’s she was awarded a master’s degree in the History and Politics of the Administration of Education in England and Wales. She was forced to take early retirement from teaching because of ill health in the 1990’s and has since embarked on a new career as a writer and lecturer  and is also a Collections Care Co-ordinator at Epworth Old Rectory Museum, childhood home of John and Charles Wesley.

Marilyn’s major area of research, The Mowbray Legacy, initially intended for local interest only, has attracted attention from many parts of the world. This book has been fully revised and reprinted in 2012 and we are confident that it is one of the most comprehensive sources currently available for information on the remarkable and powerful medieval Mowbrays, ancestors of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk.  

 Our current publications include:

The Mowbray Legacy

The story of one of England’s greatest medieval families

Anne Mowbray – The High and Excellent Princess

The story of the five-year-old wife of one of the Princes in the Tower

Trouble in Paradise

Queen Katherine Howard, the Dowager Duchess and Norfolk House, Lambeth

The Bare Bones of Queen Victoria’s Family Trees

The children and grandchildren

The Bare Bones of English History

 Romans to Elizabeth I

The Bare Bones of British Royal Family Trees

Research on Mowbray London connections has led to two further books, currently in preparation, which were at first intended as appendices to The Mowbray Legacy, but which became too big for that purpose. The first is concerned with the last member of the family, Anne Mowbray, who as a five-year-old was married to four-year-old to Prince Richard, one of the young princes later associated with captivity and possible murder in the Tower in 1483. The second, which began as a search for Norfolk House in Lambeth famously associated with the young Katherine Howard, developed into an interest not only in the house itself but also in Agnes Tilney, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, step-grandmother to the cousins Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, ill-fated wives of King Henry VIII.

Although concerned mostly with the history of medieval and Tudor England, Marilyn Roberts has also carried out extensive research on the lives of the children and grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, which can be found in the forthcoming The Bare Bones of Queen Victoria’s Family Tree.

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