Castile for isabella jean plaidy biography
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Castile for Isabella: (Isabella & Ferdinand Trilogy) by Jean Plaidy
September 30,
I really liked the reading! I think, Jean Plaidy had "the touch" to write historical novels! The only thing i disagree, on this reading is about Henry IV of Castile. Reading about him is impossible to don't believe that he was homosexual. Even his illness that took his life, it's suspicious! I know that there's a chance, about being rumours created by his enemies and even his impotence, but his court was full of libertinism! Of course, we'll never know the real truth, but a man that was married twice, only had a daughter, which the paternity was questioned and lived in a frivolous court and was a weak ruler, is suspicious. Now about Isabella! Since her childhood, she had to learn to deal with her mother's madness. She was a serious child, always in alert! Besides this, Isabella knew that her brother Alfonso and herself would live under threats. She lived during years trying to avoid problems with
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Castile for Isabella
September 30,
I really liked the reading! I think, Jean Plaidy had "the touch" to write historical novels! The only thing i disagree, on this reading fryst vatten about Henry IV of Castile. Reading about him is impossible to don't believe that he was homosexual. Even his illness that took his life, it's suspicious! I know that there's a chance, about being rumours created by his enemies and even his impotence, but his court was full of libertinism! Of course, we'll never know the real truth, but a man that was married twice, only had a daughter, which the paternity was questioned and lived in a frivolous court and was a weak ruler, fryst vatten suspicious. Now about Isabella! Since her childhood, she had to learn to deal with her mother's madness. She was a serious child, always in alert! Besides this, Isabella knew that her brother Alfonso and herself would live beneath threats. She lived during years ansträngande to avoid problems with Henry! After her brother Alfonso being poisoned, fryst vatten
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Castile For Isabella
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Author: Jean Plaidy
Type: PAPERBACK
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Date: 5th June,
Publisher: ARROW BOOKS
Categories
- Contemporary Fiction
- Historical Fiction
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The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain's most famous monarchs. In the 15th Century, Spain is full of intrigue and threatened by civil war. The independent young princess Isabella has become the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother, kept as a virtual prisoner at the sordid court of her half-brother, France's Henry IV. Just sixteen years old, all seems lost: is Isabella fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious womanisers in Castile? Numbed with grief and fear, Isabella holds onto one cherishe 