“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin.The King is dead. Long live the King.With King Philip IV dead, and the Kingdom left in disarray, as the fatal curse of the Templars plagues the royal house of France.Imprisoned in Chateau Gaillard, Marguerite of Burgundy has fallen into disgrace. Her infidelity has left her estranged husband, Louis X King of France, with neither heir nor wife.The web of scandal, murder and intrigue that once wove itself around the Iron King continues to afflict his descendants, as the destruction of his dynasty continues at the hands of fate.
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Морис Дрюон. The Strangled Queen
The Strangled Queen. Book Two of The Accursed Kings
MAURICE DRUON. Translated from French by Humphrey Hare
Foreword. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
The Characters in this Book
Family Tree
Prologue
PART ONE. THE DAWN OF A REIGN
1. The Prisoners of Château-Gaillard
2. Robert of Artois
3. Shall She be Queen?
4. Long Live the King!
5. The Princess in Naples
6. The Royal Bed
PART TWO. DOG EATS DOG
1. The Hutin’s First Council
2. Marigny Remains Rector-General
3. Charles of Valois
4. Who Rules France?
5. A Castle by the Sea
6. Chasing Cardinals
7. A Pope is Worth an Exoneration
8. A Letter’s Fate
PART THREE. THE ROAD TO MONTFAUCON
1. Famine
2. Vincennes
3. A Slaughter of Doves
4. The Night Without a Dawn
5. A Morning of Death
6. The Fall of a Statue
Footnotes
Historical Notes
Author’s Acknowledgements
BY MAURICE DRUON
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Not for an instant had Marguerite admitted her own responsibility for her misfortunes; not for an instant had she admitted that, when one is the granddaughter of Saint Louis, the daughter of the Duke of Burgundy, Queen of Navarre and destined to succeed to the most Christian throne of France, to take an equerry for lover, receive him in one’s husband’s house, and load him with gaudy presents, constituted a dangerous game which might cost one both honour and liberty. She felt that she was justified by the fact that she had been married to a prince whom she did not love, and whose nocturnal advances filled her with horror.
She did not reproach herself with having acted as she had; she merely hated those who had brought her disaster about; and it was upon others alone that she lavished her despairing anger: against her sister-in-law, the Queen of England, who had denounced her, against the royal family of France who had condemned her, against her own family of Burgundy who had failed to defend her, against the whole kingdom, against fate itself and against God. It was upon others that she wished so thirstily to be avenged when she thought that, on this very day, she should have been side by side with the new king, sharing in power and majesty, instead of being imprisoned, a derisory queen, behind walls twelve feet thick.
