In the Company of Queens crosses centuries, juxtaposing the lives of sixteenth century British queens with those of today's royal family. Well researched and award-winning, these poems portray women sympathetically. Anne Boleyn dresses with as much care as mistress and as queen as she does on the morn of her execution, Marie de Guise makes the agonizing decision to send her daughter to France, in a fairytale moment, Princess Di dances with John Travolta-even as she hides the truth of a dysfunctional marriage. By focusing on the flesh-and-blood side of these royal personages, In the Company of Queens reveals the kinship that binds all women together.