Elizabeth The Queen

Elizabeth The Queen by Alison Weir. In her highly praised
The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel Children of
England Alison Weir examined the private lives of the
early Tudor kings and queens and chronicled the childhood
and youth of Elizabeth I. This book begins as the young
Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister
Mary’s disastrous reign. Elizabeth is portrayed as both a
woman and a queen an extraordinary phenomenon in a
patriarchal age. Alison Weir writes of Elizabeth’s
intriguing long-standing affair with Robert Dudley Earl of
Leicester; of her dealings — sometimes comical sometimes
poignant — with her many suitors; of her rivalry with Mary
Queen of Scots; and of her bizarre relationship with the
Earl of Essex thirty years her junior. Rich in detail
vivid and colourful this book comes as close as we shall
ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.
Published: February 9 2009 by Vintage Books.