The Queen is a Foreigner: A Tale of Eastern Consorts

"Last night, Your Majesty, you secured the strongest ally you could ever ask for with your own hands." An extraordinary tale of intercultural marriage featuring a Chinese-style princess wedded to a Western king! Raymond II, a young and newly ascended king, is forced by the machinations of his political rivals to take as his queen a princess from a great empire in the distant East. "Zilan is my courtesy name. My given name is Xueli." Though Raymond is subjected to scorn and contempt for making an Eastern princess of entirely different looks and culture his queen, she is far from a mere, docile princess. Hailing from a foreign land with a language and culture unlike his own, she uses silk ...