Ergebnis für "Das Mittelalter" in Politik & Spionage

Blandford Candy is sent to London, after an illicit affair, and joins the Roundhead army to fight against the King, taking part in the Battle of Edgehill. A reluctant hero if ever there was one, he becomes a spy for the cause - and, through luck or judgement, uncovers more than one Royalist plot. His love of wine and the fairer sex prove both a curse and a blessing for the agent. Blandford soon earns the enmity of the King’s spy mistress Jane Whorwood, and patronage of the great parliamentarian leader John Hampden.

England, 1566: Herolden William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, er i

besiddelse af et dokument, der kan tilintetgøre dronning Elizabeth og

kaste landet ud i en sønderrivende konflikt mellem katolikker og

protestanter.

Jane Seymour of Wiltshire is not meant to go to Court. Not a child like her, with her lack of beauty and no title. But family connections are enough to have her named to the bridal retinue of Mary Tudor. At the French Court, the plain and docile Jane meets the girl who will grow into her rival in years to come: the already charismatic and conniving Anne Boleyn. Soon back home in the English countryside, Jane wants nothing more than peace and quiet—and the devotion of her childhood protector, William Dormer.

Året er 1563. England er en bekymret nation. Katolske sammensværgelser mod den unge dronning Elizabeth har efterladt landet i en tilstand af frygt og mistænksomhed.En sen nat får den respekterede budbringer William Harley, kendt som kongens overherold, besøgaf en uventet gæst ? katolikken Henry Machyn, der er desperat efter at gemme et manuskript til enkrønike, der indeholder en så farlig hemmelighed, at han frygter for sit liv. Snart er staten, i form af Francis Walsingham og hans skruppelløse håndlangere, i gang med fuldstændigt at ødelægge William Harleys fredelige hjem i deres søgen efter Machyns krønike.