Elizabeth : the struggle for the throne
Starkey, David.
Elizabeth : the struggle for the throne - 1st ed. - New York : Perennial, 2001, c2000. - xii, 363 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.
Introduction: Struggle for the throne -- Birth -- Family -- Infancy and mother's death -- Childhood and education -- Rehabilitation -- Stepmother; Catherine Parr -- Reformed religion -- Royal father -- Father's death -- Brother; King Edward VI -- Stepfather; Thomas Seymour -- Adulthood -- Hatfield; further education -- Dudleys -- Property -- Rival sisters -- Exclusion; Edward VI's will and death -- Queen Mary -- Spanish marriage -- Rebellion -- Retribution -- Tower -- Prisoner's progress -- Imprisonment; the politics of protest -- Imprisonment; personal resistance -- New dynasty? -- New England? -- Royal pregnancy? -- Parliamentary revolt -- Elizabeth's first adventures -- Honourable imprisonment -- Marriage with menaces -- Two portraits; Mary and Elizabeth -- Power ebbs -- Power flows -- Enemy; Cardinal Pole -- Two deaths -- Accession; a new government -- Between old and new -- Coronation -- Religion reformed -- Limits of religious reform; practice -- Limits of religious reform; persons -- Promise fulfilled.
In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the "Virgin Queen, " recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original documents to depict the princess's tumultuous life before her accession to the throne in 1588. Two 8-page color photo inserts. 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.
0060959517 (pbk.) : $14.95 9780060959517 (pbk.)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 --Childhood and youth.
Queens--Great Britain--Biography.
Great Britain--History--Edward VI, 1547-1553.
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Succession.
Great Britain--History--Mary I, 1553-1558.
DA356 / .S77 2001b
942.05/5/092
Elizabeth : the struggle for the throne - 1st ed. - New York : Perennial, 2001, c2000. - xii, 363 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.
Introduction: Struggle for the throne -- Birth -- Family -- Infancy and mother's death -- Childhood and education -- Rehabilitation -- Stepmother; Catherine Parr -- Reformed religion -- Royal father -- Father's death -- Brother; King Edward VI -- Stepfather; Thomas Seymour -- Adulthood -- Hatfield; further education -- Dudleys -- Property -- Rival sisters -- Exclusion; Edward VI's will and death -- Queen Mary -- Spanish marriage -- Rebellion -- Retribution -- Tower -- Prisoner's progress -- Imprisonment; the politics of protest -- Imprisonment; personal resistance -- New dynasty? -- New England? -- Royal pregnancy? -- Parliamentary revolt -- Elizabeth's first adventures -- Honourable imprisonment -- Marriage with menaces -- Two portraits; Mary and Elizabeth -- Power ebbs -- Power flows -- Enemy; Cardinal Pole -- Two deaths -- Accession; a new government -- Between old and new -- Coronation -- Religion reformed -- Limits of religious reform; practice -- Limits of religious reform; persons -- Promise fulfilled.
In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the "Virgin Queen, " recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original documents to depict the princess's tumultuous life before her accession to the throne in 1588. Two 8-page color photo inserts. 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.
0060959517 (pbk.) : $14.95 9780060959517 (pbk.)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 --Childhood and youth.
Queens--Great Britain--Biography.
Great Britain--History--Edward VI, 1547-1553.
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Succession.
Great Britain--History--Mary I, 1553-1558.
DA356 / .S77 2001b
942.05/5/092