![]() There is much to praise in this meticulously researched novel which is firmly set in its historical context and strikes exactly the right tone in the way it’s written. ![]() Joan travels widely in service to the crown, such as to Scotland with Princess Margaret to marry King James, to Durham to Catherine of Aragon and to Paris with Princess Mary to marry a much older King Louis. ![]() It’s April 1502 and the ravens at the Tower of London are unsettled as is Joan Guildford, what do they sense or portend? Through the eyes of Joan, Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth of York married to Henry VII we witness some of the most tumultuous and important times in the Tudor dynasty starting with the news of the untimely death of Prince Arthur and taking us through to just beyond the Field of the Cloth of Gold in France, 1520. ![]()
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