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Queen Jezebel

May 3, 2025 9:20 AM

Author:Jean Plaidy

Queen Jezebel

Catherine de' Medici is about to unveil her most bloody plot for power...

The ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot, still desperately in love with Henry de Guise, refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate the carnage that this unholy union is to bring about ...

In the midst of an August heatwave, tensions run high: the marriage hasn't brough peace between Catholics and Huguenots. Realising her weakening power over her sickly son, King Charles, Catherine persuades him of a plot against his life. Mad with fear, Charles agrees to a massacre that will rid France of its 'pestilential Huguenots for ever'. And so the carnival of butchery begins, marking years of terror and upheaval that will end in the demise of kings, and finally expose Catherine's lifetime of depraved scheming...

Reviews

Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there

—— Matt Bates , WH Smith Travel

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

—— New York Times

Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists

—— Sunday Times

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

—— Observer

Jean Plaidy knows her period and manages with skill a crowded cast

—— Times Literary Supplement

One of England's foremost historical novelists

—— Birmingham Mail

A fascinating historical romance ... vividly drawn

—— Manchester Evening News

Jean Plaidy shows the meticulous nature of her research and her ability to tell a good story without fuss or pretension

—— Sphere

Steve Bunce delivers a knockout read

—— David Haye

Buncey pulls no punches - a great read

—— Ricky Hatton

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