Originally published by L.S. Media. March 30th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ****

Written and presented by Dr. Helen Castor, a fellow of Sidney College, Cambridge University, She-Wolves was a three part series for the B.B.C. which looked at the lives of seven women who dominated early Medieval and Tudor England and drew the comparisons between them all, that as women they were viewed with suspicion and labelled She –Wolves by their detractors.

As Great Britain celebrates prepares to celebrate 60 years of reign by Queen Elizabeth II, Dr. Helen Castor looks back at the lives of Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Margaret of Anjou, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I.