Ebook: Lady Bette & the Murder of Mr Thynn: A Scandalous Story of Marriage & Betrayal in Restoration England
Author: Nigel Pickford
- Tags: Thynne Thomas -- 1648-1682., Percy Elizabeth -- Lady -- 1667-1722., Königsmarck Carl Johan von -- 1659-1686., Murder -- England -- History -- 17th century., Trials (Murder) -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century., Great Britain -- History -- Charles II 1660-1685., Murder., Trials (Murder), England., England -- London., Great Britain.
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Orion Publ.
- Language: English
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Overview: Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissolute fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins. Who is behind the contract killing? Is it the Swedish Count Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist? Or is it a political assassination as the anti-Catholic press maintains? Thynn was, after all, a key player in the Protestant faction to exclude the Catholic James, Duke of York, as his brother Charles II's successor.
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