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Ladies in Waiting • Anne Somerset
Ladies in Waiting • Anne Somerset
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Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day by Anne Somerset
Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune and flaunted her hold over King Charles I. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney, bestselling author Anne Somerset provides a guide to the character, profligate or pious, of each court. This lively combination of entertaining anecdote and searching analysis is social history at its most colorful.
- Format: Paperback
- Published: 2020
- Edition: Reprint
- Pages: 482
- ISBN: 9781529410662
Paperbackpre-owned book in very good condition.
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