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Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens
Written by Sylvia Barbara Soberton
Narrated by Elizabeth Jasicki
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
There has been a great deal written about Tudor queens, but less so about those women who surrounded the throne, who may have held even more power and influence than those who actually wore the golden crown.
Some ladies who served at the Tudor court are only faceless silhouettes lost to the sands of time, but there are those who dedicated their lives to please their royal mistresses and left documentation, allowing us to piece their life stories together and link them to the stories of Tudor queens. These female attendants saw their queens and princesses up close and often used their intimate bonds to their own benefit. Some were beloved, others hated.
This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court like you've never heard it before.
Some ladies who served at the Tudor court are only faceless silhouettes lost to the sands of time, but there are those who dedicated their lives to please their royal mistresses and left documentation, allowing us to piece their life stories together and link them to the stories of Tudor queens. These female attendants saw their queens and princesses up close and often used their intimate bonds to their own benefit. Some were beloved, others hated.
This is the story of the ladies of the Tudor court like you've never heard it before.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book itself is good, although there were a few minor factual errors.
The narrator did annoying fake accents when quoting people. It was distracting. Also the name the Tudors spelt "Lettuce" was then pronounced "Lah-tee-sha". Why was this not caught and corrected before the audiobook was published?