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From The Tudors to the Present Day

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Ladies-in-Waiting

From The Tudors to the Present Day

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Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune and flaunted her hold over King Charles I. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, including the diaries of such shrewd onlookers as Lady Cowper and Fanny Burney, bestselling author Anne Somerset provides a guide to the character, profligate or pious, of each court. This lively combination of entertaining anecdote and searching analysis is social history at its most colorful.

"...provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material..."--The New York Times

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Language
English
Pages
342

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Cover of: Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day
August 28, 2005, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback in English
Cover of: Ladies-in-Waiting
Ladies-in-Waiting: From The Tudors to the Present Day
February 2004, Book Sales
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day
October 28, 2002, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback in English - New edition
Cover of: Ladies in Waiting
Ladies in Waiting
1984, Weidenfeld, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
Cover of: Ladies-in-waiting
Ladies-in-waiting: from the Tudors to the present day
1984, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
in English
Cover of: Ladies-in-waiting
Ladies-in-waiting: from the Tudors to the present day
1984, Knopf
in English - 1st American ed.

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Library of Congress
DA308 .S66 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
342
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.7 x 1.6 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8103613M
Internet Archive
ladiesinwaitingf0000some_a4u8
ISBN 10
0785818308
ISBN 13
9780785818304
LCCN
83048861
OCLC/WorldCat
56356515
Library Thing
423417
Goodreads
2135126

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