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The Queen's Lender : A novel set in history

Findlay, Jean
78.00 AED
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70.20
English

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George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI and I, moves with the Court from Edinburgh to London to take over the English throne. It is 1603. Life is a Babel of languages and glittering new wealth. The Scottish court speaks Danish, German, Middle Scots, French and Latin. King James gives Shakespeare his first secure position, and to calm the perfidious religious tensions, he commissions his translation of the Bible.George becomes wealthier than the king as he creates a fashion for hat jewels and mingles with Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones and the mysterious ambassador Luca Von Modrich... However both king and courtier bow before the phenomenal power invested in their wives.
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Listed for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award.A sumptuous historical novel set in 1603, the Union of the Crowns and the reign of James the 6th and 1st. Featuring the drama of Queen Anna and her jeweller George Heriot, along with Shakespeare and Johnson, played out in the royal courts of Denmark, Scotland and England.

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