Queen Anne

Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser's life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman's 'The Duchess', 'Queen Anne' is historical biography at its best.

Informationen zum Autor Anne Somerset was born in 1955 and read History at King's College, London. Her first book, The Life and Times of William IV , was published in 1980. This was followed in 1984 by the bestsellingLadies-in-Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day , an acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I in 1991, and Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I: The Overbury Murder in 1998. Her most recent work isThe Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV . Klappentext A historical biography of Queen Anne, who inherited the crowns of England and Scotland in 1702, 14 years after she helped oust her father from his throne and deprived her newborn half-brother of his birthright. Against all expectation, she proved Britain's most successful Stuart ruler. 'Anne Somerset has done a real service both to us and to her namesake.' "Sunday Times" Zusammenfassung Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraserâ™s life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foremanâ™s âThe Duchessâ™, âQueen Anneâ™ is historical biography at its best.

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A historical biography of Queen Anne, who inherited the crowns of England and Scotland in 1702, 14 years after she helped oust her father from his throne and deprived her newborn half-brother of his birthright. Against all expectation, she proved Britain's most successful Stuart ruler. 'Anne Somerset has done a real service both to us and to her namesake.' "Sunday Times"