For a Queen's Love: The Stories of the Royal Wives of Philip II

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1954, 1971 by Jean Plaidy

Excerpt from A Favorite of the Queen, copyright © 1955 by Jean Plaidy.

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Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The Spanish Bridegroom by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1954, and in hardcover in the United States by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, in 1971.

This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming Three Rivers Press reprint of A Favorite of the Queen by Jean Plaidy, which was originally published as Gay Lord Robert by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1955. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993.

[Spanish bridegroom]

For a queen’s love: the stories of the royal wives of Philip II /

By Jean Plaidy. — 1st trade pbk. ed.

p. cm. — (A novel of the Tudors)

Originally published: The Spanish bridegroom: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,

1971.

1. Philip II, King of Spain, 1527–1598—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—

Kings and rulers—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6015.I3S63 2010

823′.912—dc22

2009022659

eISBN: 978-0-307-58958-3

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