I, Elizabeth: A Novel-Quality Guarantee

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A spellbinding novel about Elizabeth I from the internationally bestselling author of the Guenevere and Tristan and Isolde trilogies.

Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executedmother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth I inheritedan England ravaged by bloody religious conflict, at war with Spain and France, andbadly in debt. When she died in 1603, after a forty-five year reign, her empirespanned two continents and was united under one church, victorious in war, and blessedwith an overflowing treasury. What’s more, her favorites—William Shakespeare, SirFrancis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh—had made
the Elizabethan era a cultural GoldenAge still remembered today.

But for Elizabeth the woman, tragedy went hand in handwith triumph. Politics and scandal forced the passionate queen to reject her truelove, Robert Dudley, and to execute his stepson, her much-adored Lord Essex. Nowin this spellbinding novel, Rosalind Miles brings to life the woman behind the turns imperious, brilliant, calculating, vain, and witty, this is the Elizabeththe world never the days of her brutal father, Henry VIII, to her finaldying moments, Elizabeth tells her story in her own words.