The Winter Queen

An immensely moving account of a strange and magical interracial love affairThe Winter Queen illuminates the Netherlands of the seventeenth century. Amid the dark ambiance of the time the exiled Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius a West African prince and former slave fall in love and secretly marry. With great erudition and compassion Jane Stevenson vividly renders both a portrait of an extraordinary relationship and a tumultuous political history. Set against a historical backdrop enriched with the art philosophy and religion of the Dutch Golden Age scene succeeds scene in Vermeer-like richness of color (Memphis Commercial Appeal).