THREE QUEENS By Rebecca Connolly

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Three Queens features intriguing and trailblazing women from history—Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie Antoinette—three women form an unlikely sisterhood, navigating revolutions, royal pressures, and personal losses as they shape their own legacies.

TITLE: THREE QUEENS

AUTHOR: Rebecca Connolly

PUBLISHER: Shadow Mountain

PUB DAY: May 5, 2026

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SYNOPSIS

After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Abigail Adams crosses the Atlantic to reunite with her husband, John, after five long years apart. But she is unprepared for the glittering courts of England and France that are so different from her experience in the newly established United States. Undeterred, Abigail sets her sights on forging bonds with the queens of Europe, believing their support is key to her nation’s future.

In England, Queen Charlotte carries the weight of an empire on her shoulders. Her husband, King George III, battles a private madness, while political tensions rise and her eldest son schemes for power. Charlotte struggles to maintain order and propriety—while clinging to the solace she finds in her correspondence with her friend Marie Antoinette in France.

Revolution has gripped France, and Marie Antoinette must watch as her world crumbles. Vilified by the public and neglected by a king who refuses to see the storm coming, she faces growing unrest with dwindling allies. As tragedy strikes her family, she reaches out to her friends—Charlotte and Abigail—in a last attempt to find a path forward, possibly even escape.

The paths of these three women cross in unexpected ways in public, in private, and through letters. They forge a quiet sisterhood across borders and upheaval, each one facing love and loss, sweetness and strife, revolution and regrets.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“A celebration of the humanity behind the mythology, sparking interest in further reading and opening minds to re-examining what has been claimed as true, possibly with ulterior motives. Book discussion groups and fans of Marie Benedict, Allison Weir, or Phillipa Gregory will enjoy Connolly’s latest.”— Booklist

REVIEW

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A fascinating what-if: Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie-Antoinette meet in Calais and forge an unlikely friendship through letters. Three women at the center of world-changing events, yet powerless in their own right, connected by shared loss and mutual understanding.

Connolly balances all three storylines with care, though the French Revolution naturally commands the most urgency. The author’s note separating fact from fiction is a lovely bonus.

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What a fascinating premise: three of history’s most iconic women, Abigail Adams, Queen Charlotte, and Marie-Antoinette, drawn together by circumstance, mutual curiosity, and the quiet solidarity of women living at the mercy of powerful men and turbulent times.

Rebecca Connolly imagines a fictional weekend in Calais where these three women meet and forge a friendship, which then continues through correspondence. It is an inventive structure, and it works beautifully. Abigail, newly arrived in Europe after five years apart from John, navigates glittering foreign courts with the pragmatic steadiness she was known for. Charlotte quietly holds the British throne together while her husband’s mind unravels and her eldest son circles for power. And Marie-Antoinette watches the walls close in around her as revolution consumes France and the people who once adored her turn against her.

What ties them together is not status but shared loss. Each has buried children. Each lives under an unrelenting public gaze. Each has devoted herself to a husband whose world extends far beyond her own. The story gives these women a chance to be known to one another in ways their eras rarely permitted them to be known at all.

The French Revolution naturally commands the largest portion of the narrative, which feels appropriate. Marie-Antoinette’s story has an urgency and tragedy the other two cannot quite match, and Connolly handles it with care and restraint. Having previously read biographies of both Marie-Antoinette and Abigail Adams, I found the historical fiction here to sit comfortably alongside what I know of their real lives. The author’s note at the end, where Connolly separates fact from invention, is a welcome and honest addition. One lovely detail: a final letter sent to Charlotte is drawn from one Marie actually wrote to her sister.

A quietly moving read for anyone who loves history told through the inner lives of women who shaped it, even when the world refused to acknowledge that they did.

AUTHOR

Rebecca Connolly is the author of more than three dozen novels. She calls herself a Midwest girl, having lived in Ohio and Indiana. She’s always been a bookworm, and her grandma would send her books almost every month so she would never run out. Book Fairs were her carnival, and libraries are her happy place. She has been creating stories since childhood, and there are home videos to prove it! She received a master’s degree from West Virginia University and is a hot cocoa addict.

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