The Merry Monarch's Wife by Jean Plaidy
A sympathetic, richly detailed portrait of the Portuguese princess who becomes the consort of the Restoration king, following her arrival in London as a political bride and her lonely, devout struggle amid a court of libertinism and powerful royal mistresses. The narrative traces her inability to produce an heir, the anti‑Catholic suspicion and personal slights she endures, and the ways she preserves dignity through charity, religious conviction, and loyalty to her homeland, while also leaving small cultural marks—such as an association with the rise of tea drinking—against the tumult of the king’s colourful reign.
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