The Battle of the Queens
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Authors: Jean Plaidy
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Published by Arrow Books in 2008
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Copyright © Jean Plaidy, 1978
Initial lettering copyright © Stephen Raw, 2005
The Estate of Eleanor Hibbert has asserted its right to have Jean Plaidy identified as the author of this work.
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First published in the United Kingdom in 1978 by Robert Hale Ltd Published in paperback in 1978 by Pan Books Ltd
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Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Praise for Jean Plaidy
About the Author
Further titles available in Arrow by Jean Plaidy
Map
ENGLAND 1216–1223
I: Death of a Tyrant
II: The Chosen Bride
III: The Scottish Bridegroom
IV: The Rebels
FRANCE 1200–1223
V: A Change of Brides
VI: Blanche and Louis
VII: King and Queen of France
ENGLAND 1223–1226
VIII: Royal Brothers and Sisters
IX: The Adventures of William Longsword
FRANCE 1223–1227
X: The Amorous Troubadour
XI: Isabella Schemes
ENGLAND 1226–1242
XII: Hubert in Danger
XIII: The Love Match
XIV: Persecution
XV: The Princess and the Emperor
XVI: Eleanor and Simon de Montfort
FRANCE 1238–1246
XVII: The Spy from Rochelle
XVIII: Isabella’s revenge
XIX: Fontevrault
Bibliography
Praise for Jean Plaidy
‘A vivid impression of life at the Tudor Court’
Daily Telegraph
‘One of the country’s most widely read novelists’
Sunday Times
‘Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama’
New York Times
‘It is hard to better Jean Plaidy … elegant and exciting’
Daily Mirror
‘Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity’
Guardian
‘Plaidy has brought the past to life’
Times Literary Supplement
‘One of our best historical novelists’
News Chronicle
‘An excellent story’
Irish Press
‘Spirited … Plaidy paints the truth as she sees it’
Birmingham Post
‘Sketched vividly and sympathetically … rewarding’
Scotsman
‘Among the foremost of current historical novelists’
Birmingham Mail
‘An accomplished novelist’
Glasgow Evening News
‘There can be no doubt of the author’s gift for storytelling’
Illustrated London News
The Battle of the Queens
Jean Plaidy, one of the pre-eminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy’s novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.
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Further titles available in Arrow by Jean Plaidy
The Tudors
Uneasy Lies the Head
Katharine, the Virgin
Widow
The Shadow of the
Pomegranate
The King’s Secret Matter
Murder Most Royal
St Thomas’s Eve
The Sixth Wife
The Thistle and the Rose
Mary Queen of France
Gay Lord Robert
Royal Road to Fotheringay
The Captive Queen of Scots
The Medici Trilogy
Madame Serpent
The Italian Woman
Queen Jezebel
The Plantagenets
The Plantagenet Prelude
The Revolt of the Eaglets
The Heart of the Lion
The Prince of Darkness
The Battle of the Queens
The Queen from Provence
The Hammer of the Scots
The Follies of the King
The French Revolution
Louis the Well-Beloved
The Road to Compiègne
Flaunting, Extravagant
Queen
