From the Publisher: Illicit love, madness, betrayal-it isn't always good to be the queen. Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, t…
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Illicit love, madness, betrayal-- it isn't always good to be the queen. This volume charts centuries of regal backstabbing and intrigue. Readers meet well-known figures like Catherine of Aragon, whose happy marriage to Henry VIII ended prematurely when it became clear that she …
Most modern accounts of fifteenth-century queens understandably focus on separating what really happened from what was fabricated. What has not been considered in any detail, however, is the fabrications themselves as narratives, and as reflections of questions and anxieties tha…