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It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward's protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and, ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and witchcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commoner and the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearnings and desires.
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Fiction, History, Jewish families, Jewish girls, Kings and rulers, Succession, Jewish fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, fiction, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, fiction, Jews, fiction, Fiction, jewishPeople
Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Mary I Queen of England (1516-1558), Robert Dudley Leicester earl of (1532?-1588)Places
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The Queen's Fool
2007, Harper (UK), Touchstone, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
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The Queen's Fool
May 4, 2004, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 775-777).
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Henry VIII is dead, succeeded by his only legitimate son, nine year old Edward VI. Too young to rule, the realm is governed by a Regency Council, led by his uncle, Edward Seymour. Edward has continued his father's reformation of the church and Protestantism is becoming established, however England is still unsettled with rioting and rebellions common. Edward was close to and well loved by both of his half-sisters: the Catholic Princess Mary, daughter of Katherine of Aragon and the Protestant Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the executed Anne Boleyn. However he and his advisors were concerned that should he die without issue, his sister Princess Mary would return the country to Catholicism.
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