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Courting Her Highness (2000)

by Jean Plaidy(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Historical Fiction

series

Stuart Saga

review 1: Just discoverd Plaidy (pen name) and really intrigued. What I'm loving about well written hist.fiction these days... is how it makes plain "the human condition." How alike we all act, even across centuries and completely different situations/economies/politics. No matter what the world, the longest lived and happiest are those most content (and generally in the country).. tho some do thrive on conflict and ambition. The power shifts are most intriguing, I think, and in this particular book how each character becomes aware (or not) of their ability to use power.
review 2: This novel is one of the Stuart saga noves, and concerns the reign of Queen Anne. Sister to the dead Mary II and Sister in law to William of Orange, Anne becomes Queen after his death. This... more novel wonderfully recreates the court of Queen Anne, and the gross ambitions of many who surrounded her. Ever since she had been a young girl, everywhere Anne went, there was also Sarah Churchill. Sarah Churchill (yes those Churchills) was scheming, bad tempered and very high handed. She often spoke to the Queen in way which seems hardly credible. Her loathing for the Queen she allowed almost everyone else to see, and yet she pretended great friendship to Anne, in order to further her own ambitions and those of her family. Sarah however (whom I first met in the novel The Haunted Sisters) hadn't reckoned on Abagail Hill however. Abagail Hill, is brought into court intially by Sarah Churchill as a servantto the Queen, a chambourmaid of sorts, her duties are quite menial, and yet she becomes a favourite of Anne's. Abagail has ambitions of her own, but none of Sarah's nastier ways. This is great escapism, a really good historical novel, that is fascinating for anyone intrested in the first Churchill family, and how Blenhim came to be built. less

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