Book description
Despite the dangers of practicing her faith in the staunchly
Protestant England, pretty Queen Henrietta Maria refuses to cast aside
her Catholicism, so she finds little favour among the people. She is
impetuous and loving, fond of fashionable clothes and gossip, and
Charles, a family man of principle and integrity, is entirely devoted
to her.
But their happy if controversial marriage is soon under threat when
Henrietta is renounced as a puppet of Rome and charged with leading
Protestant England back to Rome.
Soon her enemies swarm and the spies in her household prove too
much. Only her loyalty and love for Charles can hope to keep him from
the road to regicide.
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.
