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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King (No Series) - Softcover

Princess Michael Of Kent, Princess Michael Of Kent

 
9780743251068: The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King (No Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0743251067 ISBN 13: 9780743251068
Verlag: Touchstone, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Set against the stunning backdrop of Renaissance France, The Serpent and the Moon is a true story of love, war, intrigue, betrayal, and persecution. At its heart is one of the world's greatest love stories: the lifelong devotion of King Henri II of France to Diane de Poitiers, a beautiful aristocrat who was nineteen years older than her lover. At age fourteen, Henri was married to fourteen-year-old Catherine de' Medici, an unattractive but extremely wealthy heiress who was to bring half of Italy to France as her dowry. When Catherine met Henri on her wedding day, she fell instantly in love, but Henri could see no one but the beautiful Diane. When Henri eventually became king, he and Diane ruled France as one. Meanwhile, Catherine took as her secret motto the words "Hate and Wait" and lived for the day Diane would die and she could win Henri's love and rule by his side. Fate had another plan. Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent, herself a descendant of both Catherine and Diane, imbues this seldom-told story with an insider's grasp of royal life. The Serpent and the Moon is a fascinating love story as well as a richly woven history of an extraordinary time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent is the author of two previous books, Crowned in a Far Country: Portraits of Eight Royal Brides and Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours. For more than ten years, the Princess has pursued a successful career lecturing on historical topics. She lives with her husband, Prince Michael of Kent, in Kensington Palace in London and in their seventeenth-century manor house in Gloucestershire, England.

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'Princess Michael...writes with style and panache and serves up marvelous details of pageantry, court fashion, and gossip.' DOMINICK DUNNE

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Verlag
Touchstone
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0743251067
ISBN 13 
9780743251068
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
450
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