A Favorite of the Queen: The Story of Lord Robert Dudley and Elizabeth 1 (53 page)

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 © 1955 by Jean Plaidy

Excerpt from
For a Queen’s Love
, copyright © 1954, 1971 by Jean Plaidy

All rights reserved.

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
Gay Lord Robert
by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1955, and in hardcover in the United States by G. P. Putnam’s Son, New York, in 1971.

This book contains an excerpt from the Three Rivers Press reprint
For a Queen’s
Love
by Jean Plaidy, which was originally published as
The Spanish Bridegroom
by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1954. 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.
[Gay Lord Robert]
A favorite of the Queen : the story of Lord Robert Dudley and Elizabeth I / by
Jean Plaidy.
p. cm. — (A novel of the Tudors)
Originally published: Gay Lord Robert : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971.
1. Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?–1588—Fiction. 2. Elizabeth I,
Queen of England, 1533–1603—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth,
1558–1603—Fiction. 4. Favorites, Royal—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6015.I3G39 2010
823′.914—dc22
2009022715

eISBN: 978-0-30758-957-6

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