Waiting game

the untold story of the women who served the Tudor queens

Waiting game

the untold story of the women who served the Tudor queens
Nicola Clark
Book - 2025

Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded. The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. --

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Nicola (Associate lecturer in history) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pegasus Books, 2025.
Edition:First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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505 0 |a Note on money, dates, names and titles -- Cast of main characters -- Preface -- Part one: 1501-1592. Brittle fortune ; So much loyalty ; My lord, my husband ; Richly beseen ; Stout resolution -- Part two: 1529-1536. Faithful to her ; On the queen's side ; Fragility and brittleness ; Extreme handling ; Inconstant and mutable fortune ; Such as about me as I never loved -- Part three: 1536-1547. Too wise for a woman ; Sworn the queen's maid ; Juggling ; The principle occasion of her folly ; When women became such clerks -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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