New Jean Plaidy re-issue out in 2011!

Woo Hoo, I found another tantalizing 2011 recover as well as it's a Jean Plaidy re-issue!!! Courting Her Highness: The Story of Queen Anne. It looks to me similar to this is a re-issue which was creatively published as The Queens' Favourites as well as is a final book in Plaidy's Stuart Saga.
SYNOPSIS: William was dying as well as Anne, shortly to be Queen, was dominated by Sarah Churchill, who believed which she, with her husband Marlborough, could rule a Queen - as well as England too.

Sarah was flamboyant, frank, impetuous as well as dynamic to have her way; her beauty as well as vitality had deferential Marlborough as well as a Queen, as well as she believed herself to be invincible - as she was until she introduced a solid as well as modest Abigail Hill into a royal bedchamber as a common chambermaid.

These two women were a Queen's favorites as well as in between them they had a great change on a rise as well as a tumble of governments.

The stage is set during a beginning of a eighteenth century - a single of a most brilliant in English story when, during home, group of well read status - Swift, Defoe, Addison, Steel, Congreve - frequented a coffee houses as well as taverns as well as sold their talents to Whig as well as Tory; and, abroad, Marlborough was winning a Battles of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde as well as Malplaquet.

The critical question of a day was a Succession. The Queen was childless; she was a victim of gout, dropsy as well as her conscience; as well as while some looked to St. Germains others turned to Hanover.

Intrigue flourished as well as a conflict circled round a favorites: Sarah, battering her way through life, quarreling with everyone, together with her own family, rushing into disaster; as well as Abigail, operative in a shadows, personally revelation ! Robert H arley to a Queen's intimate green closet, frustrated by a emotions aroused by a male to whom she initial brought power as well as afterwards helped to ruin. And resplendent through a dark intrigue is a love of Marlborough for Sarah, as well as hers for him - bold, ardent as well as indestructible.

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