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FRANCES - TUDOR COUNTESS
Book five of the Elizabethan Series
New from Tony Riches, Author of the best-selling Tudor Trilogy
“A thrilling portrait of a remarkable woman who witnessed the key events of Elizabethan England.”
Based on extensive research, original letters and records of the Elizabethan Court, this new account explores the life of Frances Walsingham, the only surviving child of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘spymaster’ Sir Francis Walsingham. Better educated than most men, her father arranges her marriage to warrior poet Sir Philip Sidney. After Philip is killed in battle, Frances becomes Countess of Essex, and is banished from court after her husband Sir Robert Devereaux’s rebellion against the queen. Can she marry for love, if it means turning her back on her faith and all she knows?
The story which began with the Tudor trilogy follows Frances, Countess of Essex and Clanricarde, from her first days at the Elizabethan Court to the end of the Tudor dynasty and the rise of the Stuarts.
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Excerpt from Frances – Tudor Countess, by Tony Riches
Barn Elms, Richmond 1587:
Frances wakes to the song of a blackbird drifting through her open window. She marvels at how the same phrase is never repeated, then recalls the grief which keeps her in her bed. Her husband is gone, her child, a daughter, stillborn, so soon after Christmas Day. The difficult birth took its toll on her, but she feels her strength returning.
She must recover, for the sake of her first born, little Elizabeth. She feels safe at Barn Elms. On a peaceful bend of the river, convenient for the city and the royal palace of Richmond, the house is her sanctuary. Shut away from the world, she’s surrendered to her mourning, the sadness and regret.
She reaches out and pulls the silk cord to summon Beth. The only one to know the truth of what she’s been through in Arnhem, Beth promised never to speak of it. Frances wishes to remember Philip as a gallant knight, on his fine black charger, not dying in agony.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his. A memory of her husband’s sonnet echoes in her head, his unquiet ghost still haunting her. She mouths his prescient words, but will never see him again.
His heart his wound received from my sight:
My heart was wounded with his wounded heart;
For as from me, on him his hurt did light,
So still me thought in me his hurt did smart:
Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss:
My true love hath my heart and I have his.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of Tudor historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors. As well as his new Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Brandon trilogy, (about Charles Brandon and his wives). For more information about Tony’s books please visit his website tonyriches.com and his blog, The Writing Desk and find him on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter @tonyriches.
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