Elizabeth

<p>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.</p><p>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 <em>Elizabeth</em> is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.</p>