Free Download Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History"
English | ISBN: 1639368094 | 2025 | 400 pages | MOBI | 10 MB
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A colorful and authoritative narrative history of the often-overlooked-yet hugely influential-figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting.
Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women.
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