description: Mary, daughter of James II and future wife of William of Orange, has had an exceptionally happy childhood. Innocent and unworldly, she is quite unprepared for the shocks to come. In line to the throne, Mary becomes the ideal wife for the ambitious Prince of Orange. Torn from her happy home to go to a foreign country with a strange, dour husband, she gradually learns to forget her past. Life in Holland is hard and the intrigue of the court shocking. When trouble threatens her father's throne in England, Mary finds herself at the heart of the conflict, caught between her father and her husband.
language: English
title: William's Wife
titlecomplete: William's Wife (Queens of England, #10)
characters: Mary II of England, Scotland and Ireland
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, 17th Century, Romance, Historical Fiction, Stuart
ratings_count: 392
series: Queens of England
publisher: Isis Audio Books