The Battle of the Queens

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Published by Arrow Books in 2008

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Copyright © Jean Plaidy, 1978

Initial lettering copyright © Stephen Raw, 2005

The Estate of Eleanor Hibbert has asserted its right to have Jean Plaidy identified as the author of this work.

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First published in the United Kingdom in 1978 by Robert Hale Ltd Published in paperback in 1978 by Pan Books Ltd

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ISBN 9780099510260

Praise for Jean Plaidy

‘A vivid impression of life at the Tudor Court’
Daily Telegraph

‘One of the country’s most widely read novelists’
Sunday Times

‘Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama’
New York Times

‘It is hard to better Jean Plaidy … elegant and exciting’
Daily Mirror

‘Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity’
Guardian

‘Plaidy has brought the past to life’
Times Literary Supplement

‘One of our best historical novelists’
News Chronicle

‘An excellent story’
Irish Press

‘Spirited … Plaidy paints the truth as she sees it’
Birmingham Post

‘Sketched vividly and sympathetically … rewarding’
Scotsman

‘Among the foremost of current historical novelists’
Birmingham Mail

‘An accomplished novelist’
Glasgow Evening News

‘There can be no doubt of the author’s gift for storytelling’
Illustrated London News

The Battle of the Queens

Jean Plaidy, one of the pre-eminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy’s novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.

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Further titles available in Arrow by Jean Plaidy

The Tudors
Uneasy Lies the Head
Katharine, the Virgin
Widow
The Shadow of the
Pomegranate
The King’s Secret Matter
Murder Most Royal
St Thomas’s Eve
The Sixth Wife
The Thistle and the Rose
Mary Queen of France
Gay Lord Robert
Royal Road to Fotheringay
The Captive Queen of Scots

The Medici Trilogy
Madame Serpent
The Italian Woman
Queen Jezebel

The Plantagenets
The Plantagenet Prelude
The Revolt of the Eaglets
The Heart of the Lion
The Prince of Darkness
The Battle of the Queens
The Queen from Provence
The Hammer of the Scots
The Follies of the King

The French Revolution
Louis the Well-Beloved
The Road to Compiègne
Flaunting, Extravagant
Queen

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