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Waiting game : the untold story of the women who served the Tudor queens Cover Image Book

Waiting game : the untold story of the women who served the Tudor queens

Clark, Nicola (Associate lecturer in history) (author.).

Summary: Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded. The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. --

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  • ISBN: 1639368094
  • ISBN: 9781639368099
  • Physical Description: print
    xviii, 380 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Pegagus Books edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Pegasus Books, 2025.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Note on money, dates, names and titles -- Cast of main characters -- Preface -- Part one: 1501-1592. Brittle fortune ; So much loyalty ; My lord, my husband ; Richly beseen ; Stout resolution -- Part two: 1529-1536. Faithful to her ; On the queen's side ; Fragility and brittleness ; Extreme handling ; Inconstant and mutable fortune ; Such as about me as I never loved -- Part three: 1536-1547. Too wise for a woman ; Sworn the queen's maid ; Juggling ; The principle occasion of her folly ; When women became such clerks -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Subject: Ladies-in-waiting Europe Biography
Ladies-in-waiting Europe History 16th century Biography
Europe Politics and government 1492-1648
Courts and courtiers History 16th century
Women Europe Biography
Genre: Biographies.

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