About the book: 2017 / Her Royal Highness Princess Michelle of Kent, a member of the British Royal Family, is not only a high-ranking person, but also a talented researcher and storyteller. She collects bit by bit and restores the history of her family, rooted in the hoary Middle Ages. “Agnes Sorel - Mistress of Beauty” is the second volume of the Angevin trilogy, which takes place in France in the 15th century. The young beauty Agnes Sorel, the most captivating and charming maid of honor of Queen Mary of France, unwittingly wins the heart of her husband, King Charles VII. Despite her piety and strict upbringing, she becomes the king's mistress. Her status as a court mistress of beauty allows her to influence important state decisions of the monarch, and the wealth in which his favorite bathes arouses envy and anger among their immediate circle. The life story of Agnes is a vivid illustration of the rapid rise to all imaginable luxuries and the equally rapid, but painful and difficult fall.