England, France, Spain - for the last 700 years, these countries have determined the fate of the world no less. But what was happening there - behind the façade of rich palaces? Maria Garanina, author of a popular blog on LiveJournal and Yandex, will tell us about this. Zen, who understands court intrigues as if she herself had lived in a past life at the court of the Tudors and Lancasters, the Valois and the Bourbons: it seems that it is impossible to know history in such detail otherwise. She confronts conflicting versions of the same events, shows what tricks the actors went to in order to achieve their goals, and puts forward her own versions of what happened. The main thing is that Maria is a wonderful storyteller. Readers of this book will definitely not be bored.