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The Scandalous Duchess
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Author : Anne O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2014-03-01
The Scandalous Duchess written by Anne O'Brien and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with Fiction categories.
It is time for this great love to be tested. But is anything strong enough to face the cries of heresy? 'If you will be a great man's mistress you must pay the price...' 1372 The Savoy. Widow Lady Katherine de Swynford presents herself for a role in the household of merciless royal prince, John Plantagenet, Duke of Lancaster, hoping to end her destitution. But the Duke's scandalous proposition leaves her life of pious integrity reeling... Seduced by the glare of royal adoration, Katherine becomes John's mistress. She will leave behind everything she has stood for to play second fiddle to his young wife and ruthless ambition. She will live in the shadows of the most powerful man in England in the hope of a love greater than propriety. But soon the court whispers – whore, harlot, vile temptress – reach the ears of not just John's young bride but his most dangerous political enemies. As the Plantagenet prince is accused of bringing England to its knees who better to blame than shameless she–devil Katherine de Swynford? Dragged from the shadows, Katherine must now answer for her sins...
Katherine Swynford
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Author : Alison Weir
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-03-28
Katherine Swynford written by Alison Weir and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-28 with History categories.
'Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book' Scotland on Sunday The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman. Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century and Katherine was renowned for her beauty and regarded as enigmatic, intriguing and even dangerous by some of her contemporaries. In this impressive book, Alison Weir has triumphantly rescued Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy. She was the mother of the Beaufort, then the ancestress of the Yorkist kings, the Tudors, the Stuarts and every other sovereign since - a prodigious legacy that has shaped the history of Britain.
Katherine
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Author : Anya Seton
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013
Katherine written by Anya Seton and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Fiction categories.
John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.
The Duchess
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Author : Sophie Jordan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2024-03-26
The Duchess written by Sophie Jordan and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Fiction categories.
The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London’s wealthiest families. The drama is big, the money runs deep, and the shade is real. Life is different in the ton. “I liked my husband well enough … but I like him even better dead.” It’s been a year since her wretched cad of a husband died and Valencia, the Dowager Duchess of Dedham, is finally her own woman. Flitting from party to party, freedom is sweet and life should be perfect. Until the new duke surfaces. Nothing like the haughty noblemen who populate the ton, Rhain, the newly minted Duke of Dedham, is a big brawny Welshman with an accent that makes Valencia’s knees go weak as he boldly moves into her home with his six wild unwed sisters. The rude and humorless usurper thinks her vain and spoiled. But with a pittance to her name, Valencia needs his support to remain in London and enjoy all the pleasures her new position as a merry widow has to offer. So a bargain is struck. Valencia will usher his sisters into Good Society and see them happily betrothed. In return, he’ll give her the financial security and independence she craves. But the more time they spend beneath the same roof, the more she realizes it's not safety she wants but the dangerously seductive Rhain. Valencia has vowed never to risk marriage again. And yet how can she resist the tempting man when he might be the greatest adventure of her life?
The Grit In The Pearl
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Author : Lyndsy Spence
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2020-06-01
The Grit In The Pearl written by Lyndsy Spence and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the only child of a Scottish self-made millionaire and a beautiful high-society woman, her childhood was rich and splendid – but empty. She was a daddy's girl with an absent father, living with a jealous mother who sought to remind Margaret of her every shortcoming. As she grew up, her name was a byword for class and beauty; she was the debutante of her coming-out year, and her marriage to Charles Sweeny literally stopped traffic. But it was not to last: Margaret needed more. What followed was a story of tragedy, scandal and heartbreak as Margaret swung from lover to lover, society to society. This culminated in her notorious divorce case of 1963, where her soon-to-be-ex-husband produced his pie`ce de résistance: a Polaroid of her in a compromising position with two other men. In The Grit in the Pearl, Lyndsy Spence takes a look at a woman who was ahead of her time. Using previously unpublished sources and personal transcripts, this is the story of a fragile woman who was to come up against the very highest echelons of English high society – and lose.
The Grit In The Pearl
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Author : Lyndsy Spence
language : en
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06
The Grit In The Pearl written by Lyndsy Spence and has been published by Sutton Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An updated paperback edition of Lyndsy Spence's bestselling biography of a socialite whose scandalous divorce shocked the country
Marblestone Mansion Book 5
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Author : Marti Talbott
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-03-27
Marblestone Mansion Book 5 written by Marti Talbott and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-27 with Fiction categories.
Sooner or later, there is a price to pay for bigamy, and the Duchess was about to learn just how dangerous and expensive that price could be.Spring brought the fulfillment of Hannish MacGreagor's promise to take his family to Scotland, and no one was more thrilled than sisters, Leesil and Cathleen. Yet, on the voyage, they encountered a woman who would make their lives far more complicated – a woman who was happy to spread gossip, and who was determined to find out what became of the duchess.
The Scandalous Mackenzies
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Author : Jennifer Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-09-01
The Scandalous Mackenzies written by Jennifer Ashley and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times bestselling author of the seductive Mackenzies series once again sweeps readers away with two Mackenzies novellas together for the first time. The Untamed Mackenzie When Lady Louisa Scranton of the decadent Scottish Mackenzie family is accused of murder, Detective Inspector Lloyd Fellows of Scotland Yard, vows to clear her name. He’s already shared kisses with Lady Louisa, and not only is he convinced of her innocence, he’s falling for her. And while he may be the only hope of restoring her family’s honor, he intrigues Louisa in a way that may be even more scandalous than murder. Scandal and the Duchess Scandal follows Rose Barclay, young widow of the Duke of Southdown, wherever she goes. And now she’s been kicked out of her rightful home. But the dashing Scot Steven McBride—a decorated soldier who is notorious for heavy gambling and womanizing during his leave time—comes up with a ruse to foil the journalists and save Rose’s inheritance. But Rose will have to go along with his very scandalous proposal. Includes a teaser of Jennifer Ashley’s The Stolen Mackenzie Bride
Marblestone Mansion
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Author : Marti N. Talbott
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2014-02-10
Marblestone Mansion written by Marti N. Talbott and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-10 with Fiction categories.
Attracting a new husband in New York City proved more difficult than the duchess expected, particularly since she was nearly broke, and did not have easy access to the wealthy. That was before she met Bernard Allen Hathaway. Indeed, he had the kind of money she coveted, yet there was something odd about him...something very odd indeed.The MacGreagors looked forward to sharing the mansion and living in peace, but it was not to be. Just a few miles from Colorado Springs, the dark clouds of a violent union strike had begun to gather, and an unforeseen tragedy would change the course of their lives forever.
Elizabeth
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Author : Claire Gervat
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-01-18
Elizabeth written by Claire Gervat and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. Born into impoverished gentility, her beauty, wit and vitality soon earned her a place at the centre of court life. When she married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 she had reached the highest rung of the social ladder. But Elizabeth was carrying a dark secret. In 1744 she had secretly married a naval lieutenant called Augustus Hervey, and after the Duke's death her first marriage was discovered. Bigamy fever swept London society and, in a very public trial, Elizabeth was found guilty. But her strength of character ensured that, even when her friends deserted her, her courage and zest for life did not. In an engaging history of this strong and wilful woman, Gervat shows there was far more to Elizabeth than the caricature villain her contemporaries made her out to be.