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Title - The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women who Served the Tudor Queens
Author - Nicola Clark
ISBN - 9781474622219
Publisher - Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Imprint - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date Year - 2024
Publication Date Month - April
Publication Date Day - 30th
Page count - 400
Format - Paperback
Description:
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.
/The Waiting Game/ explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. We meet Maria de Salinas, who travelled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn's lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one, but two queens. And maid-of-honour Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts, negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family, her mistress the Queen, and even the desires of the king himself.
As Henry changed wives, and changed the very fabric of the country's structure besides, these women had to make choices about loyalty that simply didn't exist before.
/The Waiting Game/ is the first time their vital story has been told.
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Link - https://www.orionbooks.co.uk/titles/n...
This link is from the publisher but it doesn't have the paperback format listed. But, the bookshop I bought the paperback edition from is here (to prove it exists haha) - https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/products...
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Cheers :)