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Life of Elizabeth I Queen Elizabeth I, perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, reigned prosperously for more than forty years, from 1558 until her death in 1603. During her rule she remained an extremely private person, keeping her own counsel brief english life monarch panoply royal and sharing secrets with no one -- not even her closest, most trusted advisors. Now, in The Life of Elizabeth I, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir brings the enigmatic Elizabeth to life. Many people have in their minds images of Elizabeth of which she would have heartily approved: the royal icon of the Armada years, or the Virgin Queen of the poets who presided over the England of Shakespeare brief english life monarch panoply royal and Raleigh, Weir writes. Yet as my research progressed, a very different human being emerged. Elizabeth was a strong-minded, intelligent, flirtatious brief english life monarch panoply royal and sexy woman with a wickedly mischievous streak. She drove men mad, in every sense. It is this Elizabeth that emerges from the pages of history as Weir offers provocative new interpretations brief english life monarch panoply royal and fresh insights into the intimacy between Elizabeth brief english life monarch panoply royal and Robert Dudley, who rose from Master of the Horse to become Earl of Leicester, brief english life monarch panoply royal and into Elizabeth's relationship with her beloved Earl of Essex, who cruelly betrayed her brief english life monarch panoply royal and met a traitor's death. Weir also revisits the legend of Mary, Queen of Scots to show Elizabeth's rival not as the gentle martyr who was cruelly abused by the English monarch but as the scheming hypocrite that she was. Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry brief english life monarch panoply royal and passion, intrigue brief english life monarch panoply royal and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth brief english life monarch panoply royal and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself th Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married, but was her choice to remain single fled to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn? An enthralling epic that is also an amazingly intimate portrait, Alison Weir's The Life of Elizabeth I is a work of d...
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The Princes in the Tower Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V brief english life monarch panoply royal and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the Princes in the Tower, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? In this utterly absorbing brief english life monarch panoply royal and meticulously researched book, English writer Alison Weir, an authority on the history of the British royal family, at last provides a conclusive solution to this age-old puzzle. Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as the dozens of modern accounts, Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. In The Princes in the Tower we are witnesses to the tumultuous reign of Edward IV, the princes' powerful, handsome, promiscuous father. We see the unfolding rivalry between the Wydvilles, the common family of Edward's shrewd queen, brief english life monarch panoply royal and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, his ambitious brother. And finally we are swept up in the vortex of intrigue that followed Edward's death - the naming of his twelve-year-old son Edward as heir; Richard's swift arrival in London brief english life monarch panoply royal and his lightning strike for power; the imprisonment of the princes in the Tower of London; brief english life monarch panoply royal and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard's claim to the throne as Richard III. Weir considers in turn each of the prime suspects in the murder: the grasping, conspiratorial Duke of Buckingham; the shadowy Sir James Tyrell, Richard's trusted retainer; the possibility that the boys may have died of natural causes; brief english life monarch panoply royal and of course, Richard III himself, a complex man of charm brief english life monarch panoply royal and intelligence twisted by a ruthless ambition for power.More than an historical murder mystery, The Princes in the Tower is a richly detailed tapestry of English court life in the late fifteenth century - the bitter rivalries that exploded in the Wars of the Roses; the splendor brief english life monarch panoply royal and corruption of the royal family; the violence brief english life monarch panoply royal and treacher...
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