- EAN13
- 9781474622233
- Éditeur
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Date de publication
- 25/04/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Waiting Game
The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Nicola Clark
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Aide EAN13 : 9781474622233
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'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight'
Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary Review
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 María 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.
Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary Review
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 María 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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