By Jean Plaidy

Power-hungry monarch, cold-blooded assassin, obsessive monster—who may possibly love the sort of man?       
 
Set opposed to the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the feared Inquisition, and the tortured England of Bloody Mary, For a Queen’s Love is the tale of Philip II of Spain—and of the ladies who enjoyed him as a husband and father.
 
Philip was once a gloomy and bothered guy, who, like many royals, have been robbed of his formative years. His first marriage, a romantic union with childlike Maria Manoela, introduced him tragedy and a difficult son, Don Carlos. Then marriage with the jealously possessive Mary Tudor, a political union that eventually did not deliver Philip an inheritor that will solidify the unified energy he so deeply wanted. and at last, marriage back to a tender bride Philip stole from his unbalanced son, sowing the seeds of brutal homicide. yet background is seldom what it kind of feels, and within the arms of liked writer Jean Plaidy, we pay attention one other aspect to the tale of Philip II—the strongest of kings who used to be instantaneously enthusiast, assassin, husband, father, and lover.

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He was accustomed to misfortune; but had there ever been such misfortune as this? The Holy City sacked, the holy virgin nuns dragged into the squares of Rome and publicly raped; and all the drink-crazed soldiers had been starving until they scaled the walls of the city under the command of that fool the Connétable de Bourbon. And Bourbon, who had rebelled against his sovereign lord, the King of France, was an ally of the King of Spain. Hence it would be said that these soldiers, who were guilty of surely one of the worst times in history, were Imperial troops.

His mother was looking at him in astonishment. “Your father could never be the prisoner of anyone. ” The little boy blushed a deep pink. It was so easy to make mistakes. Now he could ask no more about the little French boys who had been his father’s prisoners. But he knew that his Aunt Eleonore had become their stepmother. He wondered if they asked their stepmother—who was his father’s sister—about their father. ” He nodded. He had heard of that King. His father distrusted the King of England, who was making a lot of trouble by being unkind to Philip’s great-aunt, Queen Catharine.

He felt smaller than he did in the privacy of his own apartments; he longed to be grown up, and as tall and strong as Ruy. But Ruy was riding close to him. That gave him courage. He did not turn his head to look at his friend, but he was aware of him. He recalled his encouraging words: “Do not be afraid. ” The procession, this time led by the Queen, had reached the gates of the Cloister. ” Leonor answered for the Queen. ” The nun immediately made a deep obeisance and signed for the gates to be flung wide open.

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