Book description
True love never ran smoothly for the beautiful Sophia Dorothea,
darling of Celle, who first lost her heart to Philip Königsmarck on
her seventh birthday.
At sixteen, a pawn in seventeenth-century German politics, she was
forced into marriage with George Lewis, Crown Prince of Hanover and
the future George I of England, who cared only for women and war.
Clara von Platen, the uncrowned ruler of Hanover, jealous, ruthless
and sexually insatiable, is spurned by Königsmarck when he re-appears
in the life of Sophia Dorothea. In revenge, she plans his ruin-and
that of the sad princess he so recklessly loves.
Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for
most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English
author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's
novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her
death in 1993.
