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The Last Queen
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Juana of Castile expects to remain a dynastic princess when she is sent to marry Philip of Habsburg, but a sequence of deaths makes her heir to her mother Isabella’s crown. Her marriage shifts from intense attraction to a struggle over fidelity, children and political authority. After Juana becomes queen, Philip and her father Ferdinand seek control of Castile, while claims about her grief and mental state weaken her position. Told from Juana’s perspective, the novel follows her from the Spanish court to Flanders and confinement at Tordesillas, presenting the woman remembered as “Juana the Mad” as a dispossessed monarch fighting for her inheritance.
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