Elizabeth the Queen

<p><i><b>Elizabeth the Queen </b></i><b>begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.</b><br><br>From Elizabeth's intriguing long-standing affair with Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester to her dealings - sometimes comical sometimes poignant - with her many suitors her rivalry with Mary Queen of Scots and her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex thirty years her junior here in rich vivid and colourful detail Alison Weir helps us comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person<b><i>.</i></b><br><b><br>'Excellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book.' <i>The Times</i></b></p>