The Virgin's Daughters: In the Court of Elizabeth I
- ISBN-10
- 1101105283
- ISBN-13
- 9781101105283
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-08-04
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Jeane Westin
Description
The story of Elizabeth I, as it's never been told before-through the eyes of two ladies-in-waiting closest to her... In a court filled with repressed sexual longing, scandal, and intrigue, Lady Katherine Grey is Elizabeth's most faithful servant. When the young queen is smitten by the dashing Robert Dudley, Katherine must choose between duty and desire-as her secret passion for a handsome earl threatens to turn Elizabeth against her. Once the queen becomes a bitter and capricious monarch, another lady-in-waiting, Mistress Mary Rogers, offers the queen comfort. But even Mary cannot remain impervious to the court's sexual tension-and as Elizabeth gives her doomed heart to the mercurial Earl of Essex, Mary is drawn to the queen's rakish godson...
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