Jean Plaidy

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....

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....

William the Conqueror is destined to succeed his father as the Duke of Normandy but questions about his legitimacy mean he consistently faces challenges from potential usurpers in the Duchy to retain the title....

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

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

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

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome, Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious family....

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....

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

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

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....

The death of The Conqueror left three sons to inherit his power and his wealth....

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....

Princess Mary Rose is the youngest sister of King Henry VIII, and one of the few people whom he adores unconditionally....

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

The young Princess Victoria, strictly confined within the boundaries of Kensington Palace, is being moulded for her awesome future as Queen of England....

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....

Victoria and Albert have been destined for one another since birth....

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