The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History by Clark, Nicola
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History by Clark, Nicola

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

A colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked--yet hugely influential--figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting....
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Author: Nicola Clark
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The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History by Clark, Nicola

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

$72.48
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History by Clark, Nicola

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History

$72.48
Author: Nicola Clark
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked--yet hugely influential--figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting.

Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women.

The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. We meet Mar?a de Salinas, who traveled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn's lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one, but two queens. And maid-of-honor Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts, negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family, her mistress the Queen, and even the desires of the King himself.

As Henry changed wives--and changed the very fabric of the country's structure besides--these women had to make choices about loyalty that simply didn't exist before. The Waiting Game is the first time their vital story has been told.

Author: Nicola Clark
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
ISBN: 9781639368099


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2024 pg. 11
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