The Virgin Elizabeth

✍ Scribed by Maxwell, Robin

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 214 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781611457414

✦ Synopsis

''An intriguing slice of Elizabethan history.'' Publishers WeeklyA book of passion, of sixteenth-century England, of greed and political ambition unto death. Historians and novelists have written extensively about the various aspects of Queen Elizabeth I's long, rich, and tumultuous life. No one has ever given us a fully realized portrait of the greatest English monarch as a young girl. Concluding her brilliant Tudor trilogy, Robin Maxwell enters this new territory by introducing Elizabeth as a romantic and vulnerable teenager dangerously awakening to sexuality with the wrong man. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was banished from the court at the age of two when her father sent Anne Boleyn to her death. Seven years later, when the gracious and immensely wealthy Catherine Parr became Henry's sixth wife, she softened the King's heart and Elizabeth was readmitted to the court. For the next four years the young princess enjoyed a warm friendship with...