Description
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.
From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.
Author: David Starkey
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/25/2007
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.36w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9780061367434
ISBN10: 0061367435
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Royalty
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
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