The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

Ophelia Field

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 November 2018
Pages
592
ISBN
9781474605359

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

Ophelia Field

‘An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal … Field’s account of the psychological power play between Queen Anne and her confidante is surely definitive. A tour de force’ Lucy Worsley

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1774), was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she was an intimate, and then a blackmailer, of Queen Anne, accusing her of keeping lesbian favourites - including Sarah’s own cousin Abigail Masham.

Ophelia Field’s masterly biography, published in a new and updated edition, brings Sarah Churchill’s own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her. 

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