Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 400pp, £22
In the royal courts of history, ladies-in-waiting are ever-present but rarely the star of the show. Reviewing Nicola Clark’s new book in the, Dan Jones reflected that ‘they are a group well represented in Tudor costume dramas, but poorly understood in history. On television, they’re always there: lace-trimmed extras, scuttling and blushing, whispering and giggling, and eventually weeping when the queens they serve are beheaded.’
