Elizabeth
David Starkey
325 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099286572
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Language: English
Publish: November 1, 2005
16th CenturyBiographyBiography MemoirBritish LiteratureEuropean HistoryHistoricalHistoryNonfictionPoliticsTudor Period
A woman in a man’s world, confident of her destiny to reign, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth was to become England’s most successful ruler. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the court, she had to live by her wits, surrounded by betrayal and suspicion, not knowing who to trust with her desire to be queen, or her desire to be a lover…