num_pages: 432
description: A private battle rages at court for the affections of a childless queen who must soon name her successorand thus determine the future of the British Empire. It is the beginning of the eighteenth century and William of Orange is dying. Soon Anne is crowned queen but to court insiders the name of the imminent sovereign is Sarah Churchill. Beautiful outspoken Sarah has bewitched Anne and believes she is invincibleuntil she installs her poor cousin Abigail Hill into court as royal chambermaid. Plain Abigail seems the least likely challenger to Sarahs place in her highnesss affections but challenge it she does in stealthy yet formidable ways. While Anne engages in her private tug-of-war the nation is obsessed with another more public succession. Anne is sickly and childless the last of the Stuart line. This final novel of the Stuarts from Jean Plaidy weaves larger-than-life characters through a dark maze of intrigue love and destruction with nothing less than the future of the British Empire at stake.
language: English
title: Courting Her Highness
publisher: None