Right this moment’s group overview is from Robbie.
Robbie has been studying The Bastard Princess by G. Lawrence
I’ve by no means learn a guide concerning the lifetime of Elizabeth 1st though I’ve learn a number of about Henry VIII and his six wives. I do know a good bit of the historical past of Elizabeth’s rule however this primary guide within the collection was about Elizabeth’s childhood and teenage years, and far of the data shared was new to me.
The writer did a superb job of relaying the battle and confusion of life for Elizabeth as a toddler of considered one of Henry’s queens who dissatisfied by not producing a male inheritor. Elizabeth’s mom, Anne Boleyn, was disgraced and beheaded, and Elizabeth was pronounced a bastard. Regardless of Henry’s despotic and egocentric behaviour, Elizabeth is described as having liked him and her youthful brother, Edward, who was introduced up together with her till he grew to become king on the age of 9 years previous.
Elizabeth will need to have been a intelligent girl and so the depictions of her as calm, scholarly and intelligent, rang fairly true to me. I used to be not conscious of her shut relationship with Katherine Parr or of her unlucky relationship with Thomas Seymour. I need to admit to being somewhat shocked by Thomas’ tried seduction of Elizabeth below the nostril of his spouse, Katherine, and his behaviour submit his spouse’s loss of life.
I reality checked this info and located it to be factually sound which was gratifying. Factual accuracy in historic novels is necessary to me.
An fulfilling and detailed account of Elizabeth’s formative years and a guide properly price studying for folks with an curiosity within the Tudors.
E-book description:
February, 1603.
In Richmond Palace, London, the final Queen of the Tudor dynasty, Elizabeth I, is dying.
As Dying hovers at her elbow, ready for her to obey his name, the aged Queen appears to be like again on her life, and on the trials, victories and sorrows which introduced her ultimately, to the throne of England. Not fairly three years previous when her mom, the infamous Anne Boleyn, was arrested and executed on costs of adultery and treason, Elizabeth grew to become a real princess of the Tudor period, in a time when the steadiness of energy, politics and fervour had been fragile… and the price of failure was loss of life. Her childhood and teenage years had been fraught with hazard as competing factions and ideologies sought to undermine and destroy her within the bid for energy on the Tudor court docket.
That is the story of Elizabeth Tudor, final daughter of Henry VIII, and her journey to the throne of England. Instructed from her personal mouth… the story of the Bastard Princess, who would, at some point, turn out to be England’s biggest Queen.
E-book One, within the Elizabeth of England Chronicle.
