Book description
A special bundle of one fiction and one non-fiction title from
betselling historian Alison Weir, both centred around Elizabeth I:
The Lady Elizabeth:
England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in
English history. But beneath the dazzling façade lies treachery...
Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII, the most powerful king
England has ever known. She is destined to ascend the throne, and
deferred to as the King`s heiress, but that all changes when her
mother Anne Boleyn - Henry`s great passion and folly - is executed for
treason. A pawn in the savage game of Tudor power politics, she is
disinherited, declared a bastard, and left with only her quick wits to
rely on for her very existence. But Elizabeth is determined to
survive, to foil those who want to destroy her, or who are determined
to use her as a puppet for their own lethal ambition, and to reclaim
her birthright...
Elizabeth, the Queen:
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.
Alison Weir is one of Britain's foremost popular historians and
novelists. Her books include Britain's Royal Families, The Six
Wives of Henry VIII, Children of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Henry VIII: King and Court and Mary, Queen of Scots.
www. alisonweir. org. uk
