Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power.

Elizabeth was crowned at twenty-five after a tempestuous childhood as a bastard and an outcast, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were dashed that she began to wield real power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but also to rule. In this magisterial biography of England's most ambitious Tudor queen, John Guy introduces us to a woman who is refreshingly unfamiliar: at once powerful and vulnerable, willful and afraid. In these essential and misunderstood forgotten years, Elizabeth confronts challenges at home and abroad: war against the Catholic powers of France and Spain, revolt in Ireland, an economic crisis that triggered riots in the streets of London, and a conspiracy to place her cousin Mary Queen of Scots on her throne. For a while she was smitten by a much younger man, but could she allow herself to act on that passion and still keep her throne?
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For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring court documents and handwritten letters to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has made it possible to reveal for the first time the woman behind the polished veneer: wracked by insecurity, often too anxious to sleep alone, voicing her own distinctive and surprisingly resonant concerns. Guy writes like a dream, and this combination of groundbreaking research and propulsive narrative puts him in a class of his own.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Author John Guy
Binding Kindle Edition
EISBN 9781101609019
Format Kindle eBook
Label Viking
Manufacturer Viking
NumberOfPages 493
PublicationDate 2016-05-03
Publisher Viking
ReleaseDate 2016-05-03
Studio Viking

Country	USA
Author	John Guy
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101609019
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Viking
Manufacturer	Viking
NumberOfPages	493
PublicationDate	2016-05-03
Publisher	Viking
ReleaseDate	2016-05-03
Studio	Viking

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

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