Ladies-in-Waiting: From The Tudors to the Present Day by Anne Somerset
Ladies-in-Waiting: From The Tudors to the Present Day

Anne Somerset

Ladies-in-Waiting: From The Tudors to the Present Day

Anne Somerset

342 pages hardcover 1984

4 editions

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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...

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