Joanna Hickson
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English
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"King Henry V's new French queen, Catherine, dazzles the crowds in England, blithely unaware of court undercurrents building against her. Her loyal companion, Guillamette, suspects conspiracies against her queen. But her warnings are ignored, for Catherine believes herself invincible as she gives birth to an heir. Tragedy strikes when King Henry is struck down by fever back in France and Catherine rushes to his deathbed. A weak and weeping dowager...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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The best-selling novel about the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty. 'A bewitching first novel...alive with historical detail' Good Housekeeping. Her beauty fuelled a war.Her courage captured a king.Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois,...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Joan Vaux is nine years old when she first enters the Tower of London, after pleading to visit her mother, captive and imprisioned as the companion to a deposed and broken queen. Now, years later, she has returned to serve another queen, Henry VII's wife, Elizabeth of York. As her confidante, and the keeper of her secrets, it is not only the ravens and their sharp beaks that Joan must confront, as old rivalries whisper through the dark corridoors...
