The Queen’s Sorrow – Suzannah Dunn

The famous phantom pregnancy of Queen Mary I, as told by one of her husband’s Spanish entourage. An interesting approach, but the Spanish, Catholic double remove made it feel too remote from the main events, exacerbated by Rafael’s inability to understand the world in which he finds himself. In fact, it was hard to credit Rafael could get it quite so wrong….

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