The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King - Couverture rigide

Of Kent, HRH Princess Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743251040 ISBN 13 : 9780743251044

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Henri was bartered in marriage to Catherine de Medici, an unattractive commoner and despised foreigner who stood miserable by as Henri became Dauphin and later King, all the while growing more devoted to his famously beautiful mistress. Together Henri and Diane ruled France as one, their intertwined monograms appearing on everything from official proclamations to palace doorknobs. Only Henri's accidental death at the age of forty-tow ended his love for Diane - and Catherine's all consuming envy of her rival. Princess Michael of Kent, herself a descendent of both Catherine and Diane, imbues this seldom-told story with exquisite detail and an insiders grasp of royal politics. THE SERPENT AND THE MOON is a fascinating love story as well as a richly woven history of an extraordinary time.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Set in the Europe of the Renaissance and the Reformation, THE SERPENT AND THE MOON is the story of the life-long love affair between King Henri II of France and Diane de Poitiers, a woman eighteen years his senior. As a friend and lady-in-waiting to his mother, Diane had known Henri since his birth and once widowed, succumbed to the glamorous young prince. Henri was bartered in marriage to Catherine de Medici, an unattractive commoner and despised foreigner who stood miserable by as Henri became Dauphin and later King, all the while growing more devoted to his famously beautiful mistress. Together Henri and Diane ruled France as one, their intertwined monograms appearing on everything from official proclamations to palace doorknobs. Only Henri's accidental death at the age of forty-two ended his love for Diane - and Catherine's all consuming envy of her rival.
THE SERPENT AND THE MOON is a fascinating love story as well as a richly woven history of an extraordinary time.

Revue de presse

"A cracking good story...a consummate storyteller."
-- Lucinda Hahn, Chicago Tribune

"A hugely entertaining book...the stuff of high Renaissance drama."
-- Leonie Friede, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

"A sizzling story about love and betrayal in a royal family...a true tale of palace intrigue in the sixteenth century."
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"The author, who knows a thing or two about palace intrigue herself, writes with style and panache and serves up marvelous details of pageantry, court fashion, furniture, and gossip worthy of the master of the genre, the duc de Saint-Simon."
-- Dominick Dunne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0743251040
• ISBN 13: 9780743251044
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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