Book description
At the power and mercy of the court her life was a struggle to keep
the Queen's Secret.
Katherine of Valois is born a princess, the daughter of King Charles
VI of France. But by the time Katherine is old enough to know her
father, he is called "Charles the Mad," given to
unpredictable fits of insanity. Aged 19, she marries Henry V of
England in what was a happy but tragically brief union ending with his
untimely death.
As Joan of Arc incites the French to overthrow the English,
Katherine's loyalty to England is intensely scrutinised so much so her
baby son, the new king, is taken from her and she was forbidden to
re-marry. The young Queen is alone and desolate. But when she meets
handsome Owen Tudor, her life is changed forever as she is drawn into
a dangerous but irresistible love.
Jean Plaidy's
robust historical novels, which range from the intrigues of
fifteenth-century Rome through turbulent Tudor and Stuart England to the
terrors of the French Revolution and the heady passions of the Georgian
era, have enthralled readers for over twenty years.
