The Countess and the King : : a Novel of the Countess of Dorchester and King James {U2161}
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"Katherine Sedley is born to wealth and privilege in seventeenth-century London, and her unconventional upbringing includes a mad mother who believes that she's the queen and a father who is one of the most notorious libertines in Restoration England. Katherine quickly becomes a favorite at the palace for her sly wit and daring, and she soon attracts the attention of the married Duke of York, His Majesty's brother. She snubs respectable marriage to become the duke's mistress, but when her lover becomes King James II, she is suddenly cast into a tangle of political intrigue in which a wrong step can mean treason, exile, or death on the executioner's block. As the risks rise, Katherine is forced to make the most perilous of choices: to remain loyal to the king or to England"--Cover, p. 4.
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PUBLISHED
New York : New American Library, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 384 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780451231154
0451231155
SUBJECTS
Dorchester, Catherine Sedley, -- Countess of, -- 1657-1717 -- Fiction.
James -- II, -- King of England, -- 1633-1701 -- Fiction.
Mistresses -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- James II, 1685-1688 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- Paramours -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.