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Loading... Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (P.S.) (original 2001; edition 2007)by David Starkey
Work InformationElizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey (2001)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Detailed account of Queen Elizabeth's early years when she barely survived to be ready to be Queen. ( ) It was interesting, and I got over half way through, then I just gave up....... It was so dense, and this man he actually used the term "An abused child"..... but he never really delves into much depth about anything...... There isn't much personal about Elizabeth as I imagined/hoped there would be. There are many bits & pieces, for instance I didn't know that Edward's councilors & Elizabeth were a greedy lot and took most of his property for themselves...... That there was trading & conniving among until they had what they wanted... but when Edward died it all went back under the control of the new regime.... The writing seemed not scholarly, rather chatty at times, yet not contiguous as would a smooth timeline. no reviews | add a review
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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny, passionately sexual yet, she said, a virgin, famed as England's most successful ruler yet actually doing little, Elizabeth I is full of contradictions. This biography, published to accompany a Channel 4 series presented by the author, aims to turn the paradox into a person. No library descriptions found. |
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