Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity (Penguin Monarchs)
Current price:
$21.95
Publication Date: July 1st, 2018
Publisher:
Allen Lane
ISBN:
9780141980881
Pages:
160
Description
Helen Castor shows how England's iconic queen was shaped by profound and enduring insecurity—an insecurity which was both a matter of practical political reality and personal psychology. From her precarious upbringing at the whim of a brutal, capricious father and her perilous accession after his death, to the religious division that marred her state and the failure to marry that threatened her line, Elizabeth lived under constant threat. But, facing down her enemies with a compellingly inscrutable public persona, the last and greatest of the Tudor monarchs would become a timeless, fearless queen.