Elizabeth, the Queen

Informationen zum Autor Alison Weir is one of Britain’s top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII , Eleanor of Aquitaine , Elizabeth of York and The Lost Tudor Princess . Her novels include Innocent Traitor , Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession . She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives and works in Surrey. Klappentext Alison Weir is one of Britain¿s top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include , Eleanor of Aquitaine , Elizabeth of York and, most recently, The Lost Tudor Princess . Her novels include Innocent Traitor , Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession . She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces. She is married with two adult children and lives and works in Surrey. Zusammenfassung Portrays Elizabeth as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. This book tells of: Elizabeth's long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; her dealings with her many suitors; her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots; and, her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Weir, Weir Alison
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780099524250
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952425-0
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; England, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, Biography: royalty, British & Irish history, Biography: historical, political and military, 1485–1603 (Tudor period), 1558–1603 (Elizabethan period)