King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman

King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard

Tracy Borman

336 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. Described by Swift as a consummate courtier who packed away her 'private virtues... like cloaths in a chest', by Pope as 'so very reasonable,...

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