Title: Reluctant queen
Description: The story of Gabrielle d'Estrees is one of love, betrayal, intrigue and tragedy. All she wanted was to marry for love, and enjoy the respectability of a happy marriage. But in the court of sixteenth century France this was almost impossible to achieve. She was sold by her own mother to three different lovers before catching the eye of a king. Is the love of a king enough to secure Gabrielle the happiness and respectability she craves, and a crown for her son as the next dauphin of France?
Subjects: Fiction, Kings and rulers, Paramours, History, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: France
People: Gabrielle d' Estrées (1573?-1599), Henry IV King of France (1553-1610), Marguerite Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France (1553-1615)
Time periods: Henry IV, 1589-1610