About the book: 1994 / The novel by the famous English writer Victoria Holt, “The Spanish Groom,” continues the series of biographies of European monarchs of the 16th–17th centuries. Philip II, the heir to a powerful empire, forces queens and princesses to fulfill everything that the position of the emperor obliges them to do - both in the political field and in the marriage bed... The fate of Philip is inextricably linked with the fates of other prominent historical characters: the English queen Mary Tudor, nicknamed Bloody Mary , the French queen Catherine de Medici and her daughter Elizabeth of Valois. The fascinating plot, intrigue and deceit in the novel “The Spanish Groom” and the strong passions raging in the love novel “The King of the Castle” by V. Holt will undoubtedly not leave readers indifferent.