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Authors: Jean Plaidy

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Victoria Victorious
Memoir of Queen Victoria
AVAILABLE NOW FROM THREE RIVERS PRESS

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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