The Queen and the Courtesan

Name: The Queen and the Courtesan
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Freda Lightfoot
ISBN: 9781785025099

Author: Freda Lightfoot

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Magna Story Sound

Published: 02/01/2016

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Henriette d’Entragues isn’t satisfied with simply being mistress of Henry IV of France, she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with Marie de Medici, an Italian princess who will bring riches to the treasury. But Henriette isn’t one for giving up easily. She has a written promise of marriage which she intends to use to declare the royal marriage illegal. All she has to do to achieve her ambition is to give Henry a son, and then whatever it takes through intrigue and conspiracy to set him on the throne…

About Freda Lightfoot

Born in Lancashire, Freda Lightfoot has been a teacher and a bookseller, and in a mad moment even tried her hand at the 'good life'.Inspired by this tough life on the fells, memories of her Lancashire childhood, and her passion for history, she has published forty family sagas and historical novels including Daisy’s Secret and Watch for the Talleyman.Freda has lived in the Lake District, in Cornwall, but now spends her winters in Spain and the rainy summers in the UK.For more information about Freda, visit her website: www.fredalightfoot.co.uk.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cher 'N Books

3.5 stars - It was really good. After reading so much about the Tudors, it seems I have found a new royal scandal to read about in King Henry IV. And Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, you dear, are my new favorite historical figure to hate. If anyone has read any other historical fiction or nonfiction......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I was quite excited to read The Queen and the Courtesan because I haven't read any historical fiction in a while. This book was exactly what I expected it to be, which was both a good and a bad thing. Mistresses, love affairs, Kings, Queens and Court - this had a very 'The Other Boleyn Girl' feel an......more