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The Mirror of Naples
Elizabeth 1514
Overview
Elizabeth Grey travels to Abbeville for a wedding. Her half-blood cousin, Mary, sister of Henry VIII, is to marry Louis XII, the elderly King of France, an alliance designed to cause alarm to the other great powers of Europe.
Details
Despite a magnificent reception, not everyone at the French court welcomes the English bride. Some, like Madame Louise, mother of the handsome François D'Angoulême, Duke of Valois, the current heir to the throne, would like to see Mary dead. But it is the King Louis who dies and Elizabeth who must twice put herself in danger to save her cousin. Just when all seems lost, Mary finds a path to personal happiness. But her choice comes at a price and it is not only Mary who must pay.
From the menacing world of the French court and the glittering extravaganza of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to the tinder box that is Tudor Ireland, The Mirror of Naples is a story of the enduring power of love and the cost to a young woman of having what she wants.