Court Lady And Country Wife Royal Privilege And Civil War - Two Noble Sisters In Seventeenth-Century England.

Lucy Percy was the courtly beauty— a charming lady whose considerable talents in the ballrooms, bedrooms and anterooms of the court of Charles I were, in the end, not enough to keep her from the Tower of London. Lucy's sister Dorothy was the country wife— mother of 12 children, a domineering and politically savvy woman whose unaspiring husband's eventual rebellion caused a public scandal. Together the Countess of Carlisle and the Co...