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The winter queen

by Jane Stevenson

Yoruba (African people)FreedmenMiscegenationAfricansMarriages of royalty and nobilityBiographical fictionFictionHistorical fiction

Seventeenth century royal-in-exile Elizabeth of Bohemia pursues a clandestine relationship with an African prince against the politically unstable and war-threatened climate of the period.

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