Name: The virgin queen: The personal history of Elizabeth I
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The virgin queen: The personal history of Elizabeth I

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EAN: 9780670810222 SKU: BRANDVIKING- Categories: Biographies, European History

In her lifetime the cult of Queen Elizabeth, the virginal genius of a golden age, the “beauteous Queen of second Troy”, rivalled that of the Virgin Mary herself. Praised for her wit and high intelligence, her consumate statecraft, her bravery and learning, and for a beauty as “radiant as the sun”, she was considered so desirable a bride that even the Pope felt constrained to propose that she would make him a marvellous wife. This book presents a revealing portrait of an extraordinary woman by turns courageous and timid, gracious and violently cantankerous, kind and spiteful, sensitive and coarse, realistic yet grotesquely vain, at once so forceful and so vacillating and unpredictable that one of her principal minister complained in exasperation that she drove him “up the wall”. Based on a wide range of contemporary documents and recent scholarship, Christopher Hibbert has drawn a picture of this fascinating and difficult woman, set firmly against the background her tumultuous times.

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Brand	Brand: Viking	Manufacturer	Viking Penguin
Author	Hibbert, Christopher	Item Weight	1.52 Pounds
ItemDimensions	1 x 1 x 1Inches	NumberOfItems	1
binding	Hardcover	Amazon Category	Books » Biographies
Amazon Category	Books » History » European History	EAN	9780670810222
ISBN	0670810223

Weight	1.52 lbs

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