Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen,Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.From Elizabeth's intriguing,long-standing affair with Robert Dudley,Earl of Leicester,to her dealings - sometimes comical,sometimes poignant - with her many suitors,her rivalry with Mary,Queen of Scots,andher bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex,thirty years her junior,here,in rich,vivid and colourful detail,Alison Weir helps us comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.'Excellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant,shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book.'The Times
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099524250Number of pages: 544Weight: 396 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 33 mm
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Excellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant,shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book.An excellent account of the greatest of England's remarkable great queens.An informative and entertaining biography.Full,fair and judicious and particularly good on Elizabeth's private life.Fantastic and fascinating! Alison Weir's great talent is to pack in details without losing readability...highly recommended
Alison Weir
A popular historian and novelist,British author Alison Weir is the author of non-fiction including Richard III and the Princes in the Tower,Elizabeth the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God,Queen of England,Isabella: She-Wolf of France,Katherine Swynford,Queens of the Conquest and A Tudor Christmas. As a novelist,her works include Innocent Traitor,The Captive Queen,A Dangerous Inheritance and the Six Tudor Queens series. The latest novel in the sequence,Anna of Kleve,Queen of Secrets is published in May 2019.
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