Paperback, 342 pages
English language
Published Aug. 28, 2005 by Phoenix Press.
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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
Subjects
- Social history
- Women's studies
- History: World
- History
- History - General History
- British Isles
- Europe - Great Britain - General
- Women's Studies - History
- BG-HISTORY - BG-WAR/MILITARY TRANSPORT
- History / Great Britain
- England
- Ladies-in-waiting