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Elizabeth's Women - The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen (Paperback)
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Elizabeth's Women - The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen (Paperback)
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Loot Price R428
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'History as it should be written' Alison Weir, bestselling author
of the Six Tudor Queens series A groundbreaking and fascinating
biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women
who influenced her life. Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a
ruthless 'man's woman', who derided her own sex - 'I know I have
the body of a weak and feeble woman' - and loved to flirt with the
young men at her court. Yet she was born into a world of women and
it is her relationships with these women that provide the most
fascinating insight into the character of this remarkable monarch.
As a child Elizabeth was raised by her mother, governesses and
stepmothers, while as an adult she was clothed, bathed and watched
by her ladies of the bedchamber and her maids of honour. With them
she was jealous, spiteful and cruel, as well as loyal, kind and
protective. Among her family it was her female relations who had
the greatest influence on her life: from her sister Mary, who
distrusted and later imprisoned her, to her cousin, Mary, Queen of
Scots, who posed a constant and dangerous threat to her crown for
almost thirty years. It was these women - and many more - who
brought out the best - and worst - in Elizabeth and reveal the
woman behind the carefully cultivated image of the Virgin Queen.
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