Watch the Lady (62 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Elizabeth Fremantle

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First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition June 2015

Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Penguin Random House UK

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fremantle, Elizabeth.

 Watch the lady : a novel / Elizabeth Fremantle.—First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.

  pages cm

 1. Rich, Penelope, Lady, 1562?–1607—Fiction. 2. Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563–1612—Fiction. 3. Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566–1601—Fiction.  4. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603—Fiction. 5. Sidney, Philip, 1554–1586—Fiction. 6. Nobility—Great Britain—Fiction. 7. Favorites, Royal—Fiction. 8. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603—Fiction. 9. Great Britain—History—Tudors, 1485–1603—Fiction. I. Title.

 PR6106.R4547W38 2015

 823&.92—dc23

2014049311

ISBN 978-1-4767-0312-1

ISBN 978-1-4767-0314-5 (ebook)