Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queens ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed caring for her clothes and jewels listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes an appropriately timed gift a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women. The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting revealing the secrets of recruitment costume what they ate where (and with whom) they slept. We meet Mara de Salinas who travelled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyns lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one but two queens. And maid-of-honour Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family her mistress the Queen and even the desires of the King himself. As Henry changed wives and changed the very fabric of the countrys structure besides these women had to make choices about loyalty that simply didnt exist before. The Waiting Game is the first time their vital story has been told.
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