Jean Plaidy

One of history's most complex and alluring women, Anne Boleyn was irresistible to kings and commoners alike....

When William X dies, the duchy of Aquitaine is left to his 15-year-old daughter, Eleanor....

Reckoned by those about him to be the most handsome man in the country, Edward IV has risen to the throne with the help of Warwick, the kingmaker....

France eagerly awaits the day the young king, Louis XV, comes of age and breaks free from the rule of his ministers....

At the age of 32, Richard the Lionheart has finally succeeded Henry II to the English throne....

Scotland has been torn apart by civil war, and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies....

The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land. Now he was England's king and a man fit for his destiny....

In the aftermath of her brother Giovanni’s brutal murder, Lucrezia knows she must build a life for herself if she is to break away from the corrupt world her family is tied to....

Widowed at 18 years old, Mary is once again forced to leave her home to return to Scotland. Now a Catholic queen in a Protestant country, Mary must rule with caution and choose her next husband prudently....

Albert is dead....

Fifteenth-century Spain is rent with intrigue and threatened by civil war. Here, the young Isabella becomes a virtual prisoner at the court of her half-brother, Henry IV....

At the age of 15, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles....

Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just as grand a match....

On the death of Henry V, a nine-month-old baby is made King of England. Ambitious men surround the baby king, including his two uncles, the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester, who both have plans....

News of Thomas à Becket’s martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom....

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be more suited to a quiet life....

No longer the well-beloved, Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular - the huge expense of his court and decades of costly warfare having taken their toll....

Married to Ferdinand after numerous fears and disappointments, Isabella triumphs over every danger, convinced of her own destiny....

Edward the Second has been barbarously murdered in Berkeley Castle....

In the grim Tower of London, two captives begin a love affair that will last years but is destined to destroy them. One is Robert Dudley, the other is the future Queen of England....