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File Size: 1543 KB
Print Length: 450 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books; Reprint edition (July 5, 2011)
Publication Date: July 5, 2011
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B004J4WLO6
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COURTING HER HIGHNESS is a dense, rich character study of three women whose lives were dramatically intertwined. It is a story of friendship, love, loyalty, betrayal, power, politics, and the struggle to find one's place in this world and in history. I found it a joy to read, absorbing, satisfying, and entertaining. Even thought-provoking and fun.I've read a ton of novels about the Stuarts, but Mary and Anne both have always been overshadowed: both by their male ancestors, and Mary by William, Anne by Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Of course, Sarah would steamroll over anyone!I found this to be one of Jean Plaidy's most satisfying novels. She balances her time with each leading lady: Anne, Sarah, and the clever, retiring, long-suffering Abigail Masham, so that the novel works as a showcase of all three personalities. Each woman is dynamic and fascinating in their own way. I haven't seen Anne portrayed so positively anywhere else. And Abigail has, until I read this novel, always been a simple footnote in the greater drama of Anne and Sarah.Plaidy writes what seems to be honest portrayal of each woman's faults and strengths, ambitions, fears, and frustrations. The men in their lives, though loved, were as often as not pawns in their ploy for power (Marlborough) taken for granted (Samuel Masham) or adored but without influence (Prince George). These women wielded their own formidable power and influence at a time when a woman's power usually came from sex. Sarah and Abigail were Queen Anne's "Favourites" like Charles Ii's Barbara Palmer, Nelly Gwynne, Louse de Keroualle et al, or her father's (less influential) Katherine Sedley. Indeed there was an element of sex in their complex relationships, but it wasn't their ticket to the privy chamber as it was with their predecessors. They are unique in the history of British monarchs.And clearly, a monarch's favorite companions, duchess or chambermaid, actress or courtier, were extremely powerful, as Plaidy demonstrates. They could make or break anyone, even men far above their rank. But through her character study of Anne, Plaidy carefully demonstrates that ultimately, the queen was boss, the woman history has painted as a fat and complacent cow. Queen Anne had guts, not just a gut, and I loved reading about her.Sarah Churchill is also simply awe-inspiring. She's one of history's most famous capital-b-Bitches, to be perfectly frank, and she seems to deserve that reputation. She is endlessly fun to read about, the more outrageous, the better. A baddie you love to hate, not unlike Barbara Palmer. Though My Lady Castlemaine actually sounds like the friendlier of the two. Whew. I digress.Abigail Masham was incredibly clever and resilient, despite swimming with sharks. Perhaps not so much clever as instead more.. . I'm blanking. Careful, wise, patient but ambitious nonetheless. . . Plaidy helped me finally understand how she became a Favourite and remained one. I trust that her influence in Robert Harley's career was not fiction on Plaidy's part, nor her quiet, plausible Jacobite sympathies and influence on Anne in that arena. The full extent, of course, is conjecture, but clearly researched.I also found the little Duke of Gloucester, Anne's only child to survive past infancy, only to die at eleven, to be an incredibly charming, adorable, endearing fellow. I loved reading about him. It's no wonder his mama and papa were so smitten and proud!I've read one other novel about Anne and Sarah, with very little Abigail Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill. Narrated by Sarah herself, it's a great companion for Plaidy's older novel (previously published as The Queen's Favourites, why the title change?) of course I like Sarah at her worst, as she is here in Courting Her Highness. There's also the non-fiction biography Sarah Churchill: Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite. You can probably tell Sarah's a favourite of mine, too.This book is a deliciously wicked portrayal of Sarah Churchill that's quite fun. At the same time it manages to convey the struggles of poor dear Anne. One wonders why she was so, so clingy and desperate for friendship, but I also greatly empathize with her: we both value friendships as sacred, deep bonds of love and loyalty. It can make one's heart sadly vulnerable.Ultimately though, I'd say this is Abigail's book. As much as an ensemble piece as it is, highlighting all three women, Abigail's character performs much like she did in real life, always quietly in the background, never far from the action. She has an Everywoman quality, not having grown up at court, that draws the reader to see most comfortably through her eyes, of the three.Fans of historical fiction will easily gobble this up. Jean Plaidy, who wrote gothic romance under the name Victoria Holt and historical romance as Phillipa Carr, is strikingly prolific in her work on the British monarchy (prolific in general!) I recommend her series on Queen Victoria. Her books are currently enjoying rediscovery as they are rereleased. What a joy!
Historical novels are readable forms of quasi-history, palatable history courses for readers who like a spiced up view of the past. JP specializes in English history focusing on the Crown and members of the Court, all of whom either wielded power or wished to, never certain if they could achieve it or how long they could hold on to it. Raw power was the menu of the day and for readers of later generations has always provided a rich source for story-telling. Life, death, money, sex, intrigue......all of that and all the time. Her books fill very satisfactorily readers' appetites for this kind of history lesson. I found some unnecessary repetition and some dialogue a little manufactured. Still it was fun to read if not quite up to the quality of at least two other authors of a similar venue, both of whom have received awards for their wok.
I have actually read this book twice. I wish I had known the historical sequence of Jean Plaidy's books. Since I read this one first in the Stuart series, I reread it after I finished some of the other books. The manner in which little unobtrusive Abigail Hill weans the emotional dependence of Anne from the flamboyant Sarah Churchill who had been her closest friend since childhood and becomes a factor in the politics of England is impressive. I actually looked up the history of the era, and these people are all historical figures and did what Jean Plaidy says they did. Plaidy's colorful writing puts flesh on the old historical bones.
Queen Anne has been upstaged by the more flamboyant Stuarts like Charles I (her grandfather) and Charles II (her uncle) and all the Tudors. But she was well -meaning and honest and although a woman easily influenced, albeit stubborn, her rule reflected a prosperous England,Anne gets upstaged in this historical novel, too, by one Abigail Hill and by Sarah Churchill. Abigail is an impovershed relation, a cousin, of Lady Marlborough (Sarah Churchill)and Sarah secures a place for Abigail in Princess Anne's household because she is ashamed of having a poor relative.As Sarah blatantly manipulates the Princess, Abigail as Mistress of the Wardrobe quietly goes about winning Anne's affection and trust. (Abigail and Sarah rather remind me of Jane Seymour versus Anne Boleyn).The interesting thing is Abigail is just as manipulting of Queen Anne as Sarah, but much more tactful(Jane Seymour).Abigail very likely loved Anne, Sarah emphatically did not.Anne's loss of her only surviving child, the eleven year old Duke of Gloucester,is very touching in the book. Because she is emotionally vulnerable, the stage is set for a sympathetic listener and Abigail provides the ballast Anne needs. One wonders how Anne withstood the horror of seventeen aborted pregnancies.When William of Orange, the King and husband of Anne's long-dead sister Mary dies, Anne inherits the throne. Her husband, George of Denmark remains a prince and not a king as he is the queen consort. George is insignificant and wafts in and out of the novel, mostly eating and sleeping. Anne adores him.Anne favors moderate Tory politicians who share her High Church Anglican views.She also reinstates the touch of the king's evil, a practise in which the ruler touches the necks of people suffering from scrofula, a type of tuberculosis resulting in lesions and swellings of the lymph nodes. "The king's Evil" is the name of the disease.Anne's reign is one of artistic, literary and economic prosperity. Although Daniel Defoe is pilloried for his ruthless attacks on the hypocrisy of the High Church Tories, he is so popular with the masses that they refrain from throwing garbage at him while he is confined to the pillory.They threw flowers instead. Defoe is a very prolific writer, his most famous work being, of course, "Robinson Crusoe."He has his fingers in many pies reflecting liveliness of thought during Anne's reign. Jonathan Swift is a prodigious writer at this time as well.Anne will dismiss her Whig ministers and her relationship with the Whig supporter Sarah Churchill sours. Eventually she will be denied all access to the Queen. Meanwhile Abigail, who had long since married the Prince's attendant Samuel Masham, grows in power and influence over the Queen, meticulously remains in her proper place as a subject even when her husband is awarded a peerage.Sarah outlives Queen Anne, the Duke of Marlborough her husband and Abigail Masham. Finally dying at age eighty, this virago is not mourned by a soul."Courting her Highness" is a fine read although the historical novel gets a bit too ponderous at times.
Not a lot has been written about Queen Anne of England. This is an interesting tale of the rise and fall of Sarah Churchill and her relationship with the Queen. Fans of English history will enjoy this book.
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