15 At the age of eighteen, Mary calls a meeting with Thomas Wolsey, Bishop of Lincoln; Sir Ralph Verney, the Princess’s Chamberlain; the Earl of Worcester; and the Bishops of Winchester and Durham. She asks them to plead her case to the king, and help dissolve her betrothal to the Prince of Castile. How does she get away with this meeting without facing Henry’s wrath? Do they help her? What international debacle releases her from this dreaded betrothal?
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Originally published in Great Britain by Robert Hale, London, in 1964 and subsequently in the United States by Penguin Putnam, New York.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993
Mary, Queen of France / Jean Plaidy.—1st Three Rivers Press
pbk. ed.
1. Mary, Queen, consort of Louis XII, King of France, 1496–1533— Fiction. 2. France—History—Louis XII, 1498–1515—Fiction. 3. Queens—France—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6015.I3M36 2003
823′.914—dc21
2002041620
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