The formidable Queen Emma of Normandy

Wife to England’s worst ever king. Wife to her first husband’s greatest foe. Great-aunt to William the Conqueror

Queen Emma as depicted in the work entitled ‘In Praise of Queen Emma’. Source: British Library

I will start this article in a slightly different way than usual; this will be, most likely, the last on the series that I have planned on Anglo-Saxon history and the line of Alfred the Great. If you have been…