by Jean Plaidy · Grijalbo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425332289
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«El cardo y la rosa» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Grijalbo in paperback (292 pages, in Spanish).
Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, marries James IV of Scotland in 1503 in a state wedding arranged to seal the peace. Despite initial wariness, the marriage proves happy, but the war between Scotland and England leaves her divided between her family and her son, the new king, forcing her to carve out her own destiny.
The original title, «The Thistle and the Rose», appeared in English in 1963; the translation is by M.ª José Buxó-Dulce and Joaquín Voltes. It belongs to the Tudor Saga.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction interested in the Tudor dynasty and in the alliances between England and Scotland.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
