by C. W. Gortner · HODDER AND STOUGHTON LTD. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340977682
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«The Last Queen» is the historical novel by C. W. Gortner, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Novel that gives voice to Juana of Castile, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs and sister of Catherine of Aragon, sent at sixteen to Flanders to marry Philip the Handsome. When the death of her siblings makes her heir to the Spanish throne, Juana finds herself trapped in a power struggle with her husband and the major European courts to preserve her freedom and her crown.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Spanish monarchy, the figure of Juana «the Mad» and power conflicts in sixteenth-century Europe.
Christopher Willis Gortner was an American author of historical fiction, including the novels The Last Queen, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, and the Spymaster Trilogy.
