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After Elizabeth
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Author : Leanda de Lisle
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2007-12-18
After Elizabeth written by Leanda de Lisle and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
Many volumes have been written about the long reign of Elizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new work that focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in which England lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggle ensued to find her successor. December 1602. After forty-four years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth is in decline. The formidable ruler whose motto is Semper eadem (I never change) has become a dithering old woman, missing teeth and wearing makeup half an inch thick. The kingdom has been weakened by the cost of war with Spain and the simmering discontent of both the rich and the poor. The stage has been set, at long last, for succession. But the Queen who famously never married has no heir. Elizabeth’s senior relative is James VI of Scotland, Protestant son of Elizabeth’s cousin Mary Queen of Scots. But as a foreigner and a Stuart, he is excluded from the throne under English law. The road to and beyond his coronation will be filled with conspiracy and duplicity, personal betrayals and political upheavals. Bringing history to thrilling life, Leanda de Lisle captures the time, place, and players as never before. As the Queen nears the end, we witness the scheming of her courtiers for the candidates of their choice; blood-soaked infighting among the Catholic clergy as they struggle to survive in the face of persecution; the widespread fear that civil war, invasion, or revolution will follow the monarch’s death; and the signs, portents, and ghosts that seem to mark her end. Here, too, are the surprising and, to some, dismaying results of James’s ascension: his continuation of Elizabeth’s persecution of Catholics, his desire to unite his two kingdoms into a new country called Britain, and the painful contrast between the pomp and finery of Elizabeth’s court and the begrimed quality of his own. Around the old queen and the new king, swirl a cast of unforgettable characters, including Arbella Stuart, James’s ambitious and lonely first cousin; his childish, spoiled rival for power, Sir Walter Raleigh, who plotted to overthrow the king; and Sir John Harrington, Elizabeth’s wily godson, who switched his loyalties to James long before the queen’s death. Courtesy of Leanda de Lisle’s keenly modern view of this tumultuous time, we are given intimate insights into of political power plays and psychological portraits relevant to our own era. After Elizabeth is a unique look at a pivotal year–and a dazzling debut for an exciting new historian.
After Elizabeth
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Author : Leanda De Lisle
language : en
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Release Date : 2006
After Elizabeth written by Leanda De Lisle and has been published by HarperPerennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Great Britain categories.
Leanda De Lisle provides a history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.
After Elizabeth
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Author : Ed Owens
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Release Date : 2023-11-14
After Elizabeth written by Ed Owens and has been published by Bloomsbury Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An in-depth discussion of the future of the monarchy after the death of Queen Elizabeth II and during the reign of Charles III.
After Elizabeth The Death Of Elizabeth And The Coming Of King James Text Only
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Author : Leanda de Lisle
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-10-11
After Elizabeth The Death Of Elizabeth And The Coming Of King James Text Only written by Leanda de Lisle and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with History categories.
Family trees are best viewed on a tablet. A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.
Queen Elizabeth
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Author : Jacob Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2019-04-14
Queen Elizabeth written by Jacob Abbott and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603)[1] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother, Edward VI, ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Roman Catholic Mary, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. In 1558 upon Mary's death, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel.[2] She depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers, led by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement was to evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir; however, despite numerous courtships, she never did. She was eventually succeeded by her first cousin twice removed, James VI of Scotland. She had earlier been responsible for the imprisonment and execution of James's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots.
After Julius
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Author : Elizabeth Jane Howard
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-09-23
After Julius written by Elizabeth Jane Howard and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-23 with Fiction categories.
From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story of a family brought together yet falling apart. It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius's widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme's old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued by guilt for his action. And Dan, an outsider. Throughout a disastrous – and revelatory – weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges . . .
The Excommunication Of Elizabeth I
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Author : Aislinn Muller
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-04-14
The Excommunication Of Elizabeth I written by Aislinn Muller and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with History categories.
In The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, Aislinn Muller examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign.
Dissing Elizabeth
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Author : Julia M. Walker
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1998
Dissing Elizabeth written by Julia M. Walker and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
DISSING ELIZABETH is a collection of essays focusing on criticism of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries, and considering the wide range of forms the dissenters used for their critique.
Elizabeth And After
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Author : Matt Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-06-02
Elizabeth And After written by Matt Cohen and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-02 with Fiction categories.
A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Elizabeth and After masterfully wraps us up in the lives of Carl and his family, and the other 683 odd residents of this snowy Canadian hamlet.
Elizabeth
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Author : David Starkey
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2007-09-25
Elizabeth written by David Starkey and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual—though, as she maintained, a virgin—Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years—from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558—and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition—and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.