At the King's Pleasure
by:
Kate Emerson (author)
Married to one man. Desiring another. Beautiful Lady Anne Stafford, ladyin- waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon, is torn between her love for her husband, George, Lord Hastings . . . and the king’s boon companion, the attentive Sir William Compton. But when King Henry VIII, amorous as always,...
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Married to one man. Desiring another. Beautiful Lady Anne Stafford, ladyin- waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon, is torn between her love for her husband, George, Lord Hastings . . . and the king’s boon companion, the attentive Sir William Compton. But when King Henry VIII, amorous as always, joins the men clustering around her, Anne realizes she has become perilously enmeshed in the intrigues of the court. Will she be forced to decide between the two men she desires—and the one she doesn’t?Kate Emerson charms again with a heroine who steps out of the pages of history to win our hearts in this sumptuous novel of Tudor scandal and intrigue.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781439177822 (1439177821)
Publish date: January 3rd 2012
Publisher: Gallery
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
Series: Secrets of the Tudor Court (#4)
At the King’s Pleasure’ is the fourth book in Kate Emerson’s Secrets of the Tudor Court series. I’ve read the previously three books and I’ve truly enjoyed reading each one. In this novel our protagonist is Lady Anne Stafford. Lady Anne is the sister of The Duke of Buckingham, a man history remembe...
Slow start but otherwise pretty good. After reading so many books from the point of view of King Henry VIII or one of his wives, it was refreshing to read from the point of view of someone else who was around when all these events were happening yet wasn't one of the aforementioned people.
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