The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess Of Marlborough

Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough and favourite of Queen Anne, was the controversial subject of hundreds of satires, newspaper articles, books and other publications during her lifetime, and after her death. This new biography brings her passionate and intelligent voice back to life.

Politically influential, independently powerful, and a compulsive and compelling writer, Sarah was instrumental in the glorious Revolution, an intimate, and then a blackmailer, of Queen Anne, and the founder of many of England's greatest dynasties.

Here is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who cared intensely about how we would remember her, by a brilliant new biographer.