# The Favourite

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- Book: [The Favourite](https://www.bookquiver.com/ophelia-field/the-favourite) ([The Favourite.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ophelia-field/the-favourite.md))
- Authors: [Ophelia Field](https://www.bookquiver.com/ophelia-field)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0918-325-9
- Published: 2018-11-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... Field's account of the psychological power play between Queen Anne and her confidante is surely definitive. A tour de force' Lucy Worsley Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1774), was as glamorous as she was controversial. Politically influential and independently powerful, she was an intimate, and then a blackmailer, of Queen Anne, accusing her of keeping lesbian favourites - including Sarah's own cousin Abigail Masham. Ophelia Field's masterly biography, published in a new and updated edition, brings Sarah Churchill's own voice, passionate and intelligent, back to life. Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her.