Elizabeth, the Queen : An intriguing deep dive into Queen Elizabeth Is life as a woman and a monarch

Author: Weir, Alison

Biography: royalty

Published on 1 January 2009 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 544 pages
198 x 130 x 34 | 396g

Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.

From Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to her dealings - sometimes comical, sometimes poignant - with her many suitors, her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots, and her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior, here, in rich, vivid and colourful detail, Alison Weir helps us comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.

'Excellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant, shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book.' The Times