Inside the story
Meet Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria is the Queen of France and the wife of King Louis XIII. At the story’s outset, she lives at the royal court, where her position places her at the center of the kingdom’s politics and its powerful relationships.
On the page
A queen of twenty-six or twenty-seven in the full splendour of her beauty, her carriage that of a goddess, her eyes casting the brilliancy of emeralds yet full of sweetness and majesty.
