Court Lady And Country Wife: Royal Privilege and Civil War - Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

Lucy Percy was the courtly beauty— a charming lady whose considerable talents in the ballrooms, bedrooms and anterooms of the court of Charles I were, in the end, not enough to keep her from the Tower of London. Lucy’ s sister Dorothy was the country wife— mother of 12 children, a domineering and politically savvy woman whose unaspiring husband’ s eventual rebellion caused a public scandal. Together the Countess of Carlisle and the Countess of Leicester were at the centre of power during one of Britain’ s most tumultuous periods. This richly detailed, intriguing story of two exceptional sisters is a must-read for fans of Charlotte Gray, Sandra Gulland and Jane Dunn.