The Merry Monarch's Wife

  previously published as

  William’s Wife

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  Victoria Victorious

  Memoir of Queen Victoria

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1991 Jean Plaidy

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

  Originally published as The Pleasures of Love: The Story of Catherine of Braganza in hardcover in Great Britain by Robert Hale Limited, London, in 1991, and in the United States by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, in 1992.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Plaidy, Jean, 1906–1993.

  [Pleasures of love]

  The merry monarch’s wife: the story of Catherine of Braganza / Jean Plaidy.

  Previously published as The Pleasures of Love.

  Includes bibliographical references.

  1. Catherine, of Braganza, Queen, consort of Charles II, King of England, 1638–1705—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Charles II, 1660–1685—Fiction. 3. Queens—Great Britain—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6015.I3P57 2008

  823'.914—dc22 2007027959

  eISBN: 978-0-307-40996-6

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