Elizabeth

Description:

In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the "Virgin Queen, " recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original documents to depict the princess's tumultuous life before her accession to the throne in 1588. Two 8-page color photo inserts. 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.

subjects: Politics and government,  Kings and rulers,  Succession,  History,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  Queens,  Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603,  Great britain, history, elizabeth, 1558-1603,  Queens, great britain,  Kings, queens, rulers,  Large type books,  Great britain, politics and government, 1485-1603,  Great britain, kings and rulers,  Great britain, history, tudors, 1485-1603

People: Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603)

Places: Great Britain,  Queens

Times: Mary I, 1553-1558,  Edward VI, 1547-1553,  Succession,  1558-1603