The Irish princess / Karen Harper.
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TextPublication details: New York : New American Library, 2011.Description: 406 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0451232828
- 9780451232823
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 -- Fiction
- Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Fiction
- Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, Earl of Lincoln, 1512-1585 -- Fiction
- Clinton, Elizabeth Fiennes de, Countess of Lincoln, 1528?-1589 -- Fiction
- Princesses -- Ireland -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A grand-scale historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Mistress Shakespeare .
Born into a first family of Ireland, with royal ties on both sides, Elizabeth Fitzgerald--known as Gera--finds her world overturned when Henry VIII imprisons her father, the Earl of Kildare, and brutally destroys her family.
Torn from the home she loves, her remaining family scattered, Gera dares not deny the refuge offered her in England's glittering royal court. There she must navigate ever-shifting alliances even as she nurtures her secret desire for revenge.
From County Kildare's lush green fields to London's rough-and-tumble streets and the royal court's luxurious pageantry, The Irish Princess follows the journey of a daring woman whose will cannot be tamed, and who won't be satisfied until she restores her family to its rightful place in Ireland.
Raised in a family at the center of the struggle for Irish home rule, young Irish noblewoman Elizabeth Fitzgerald, known as "Gera", flees to England as most of her relatives are imprisoned or executed. Entering court politics first as a lady-in-waiting to Henry's doomed fifth queen and later wife to highly placed courtier Sir Anthony Browne, her desire for revenge and the reinstatement of her family is balanced by respect for the disinherited princesses Mary and Elizabeth, care for her husband's position, and her secret attraction to seagoing nobleman Edward Clinton.