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Elizabeth - (P.S.) by David Starkey (Paperback)

Elizabeth - (P.S.) by  David Starkey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the "Virgin Queen, " recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original documents to depict the princess's tumultuous life before her accession to the throne in 1588. Two 8-page color photo inserts.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years--from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558--and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.</p><p>From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition--and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, <em>Elizabeth</em> is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Unpredictable, harrowing, and engrossing."Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall and The Road Home<br>

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