Three Maids for a Crown: A Novel of the Grey Sisters
In the second novel from Ella March Chase, we meet sixteen-year-old Jane Grey, a quiet and obedient young lady destined to become the shortest reigning English monarch. Her beautiful middle sister Katherine Grey charms all the right people--until loyalties shift. And finally Lady Mary Grey, a...
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In the second novel from Ella March Chase, we meet sixteen-year-old Jane Grey, a quiet and obedient young lady destined to become the shortest reigning English monarch. Her beautiful middle sister Katherine Grey charms all the right people--until loyalties shift. And finally Lady Mary Grey, a dwarf with a twisted spine whose goal is simply to protect people she loves--but at a terrible cost. In an age in which begetting sons was all that mattered and queens rose and fell on the sex of their child, these three girls with royal Tudor blood lived under the dangerous whims of parents with a passion for gambling. The stakes they would wager: their daughters' lives against rampant ambition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307588982 (030758898X)
ASIN: 030758898X
Publish date: August 2nd 2011
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 410
Edition language: English
Ella March Chase walks us through the lives of the Grey sisters, from the disastrous marriages of the older two sisters through the insecurities of the younger sister. Three women with royal blood, who went against convention. Jane would have been happy to live in a small house surrounded by her boo...
This book is just wonderful. It broke my heart so many times while reading it. Three Maids for a Crown is not just a historical novel, it has so many emotions in it, it touched me and made me feel so much for the Grey sisters.It's so beautifully written too. I liked the style, it's very fitting. Ve...