Everybody knows that Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen that she had lots of admirers & refused to marry & that her army beat the Spanish Armada. But in this book readers can discover all the fascinating facts they didn't know...how Liz liked to lock up her ladies for getting married & how her reputation was nearly ruined when her boyfriend's wife was found dead at the bottom of the stairs. It offers everything you could ever want to know about the woman with the big red wig. ...

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- Gives support with assessment both through the books providing exam-style questions & tips for AQA Edexcel & OCR A level history specifications & through FREE model answers with supporting commentary at Access to History online (www.accesstohistory.co.uk) Elizabeth I Meeting the Challenge: England 1541-1603 This title sets the scene from 1541 charting the developments of the Mid-Tudor crisis from Henry VIII to Mary I. It then goes on to analyse the succession of Elizabeth & her consolidation of power examining the political religious & military internal & external threats to her rule. The problems during her final years are also explored & this title concludes by looking at key themes & interpretations across the period.


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A different window on the first half of the famous Queens life. Elizabeth I is a historical novel narrated by the three women who knew her best (real figures from history) Lady Margaret Bryan Kat Ashley & Lady Catherine Knollys. Their unique backstage angle on Elizabeths story brings to vivid life the dramatic & dangerous period of the Tudors. Elizabeths formative years left harsh scars but at 25 she reached the throne to great rejoicing. Then came the sting in the tail: incredibly she (the last Tudor) refused to marry & provide vital heirs. Her country dreaded the likely outcome of civil war after her death. But selfishly the Queen put her private fears above her crucial public duty. Liz Woodhouses novel unfolds over the first half of Elizabeths life ending as she is 35 when a fearful desolation hangs over the court because of her refusal to marry
- a sharp contrast with her usual image today as Gloriana & Good Queen Bess. Illuminating the emotional journey from a constrained upbringing to a young Queen under siege to secure the line Elizabeth I is an engrossing historical read that will appeal to fans of Philippa Gregory & Alison Weir.
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At 1.28 a.m. on Wednesday 23 March 2011 just three weeks after celebrating her 79th birthday the biggest star Hollywood has ever known died. The tributes & eulogies to Elizabeth Taylor were legion. A weeping Elton John said We have just lost a Hollywood giant. More importantly we have lost an incredible human being. In Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady The Lover The Legend 1932-2011 acclaimed biographer David Bret has written the revealing incisive & definitive life story of the most controversial cinematic icon since Mae West. While never yielding in his admiration & respect Bret has stripped away the veneer to portray the star as she really was: sometimes arrogant attention-seeking avaricious reckless monstrous towards her peers generous even foolish at times but above all through the tumultuous relationships & the personal mayhem a survivor. Elizabeth Taylor was the very last of the Hollywood greats. As David Bret writes Most of her contemporaries
- Garbo Streisand & Dietrich excepted
- were compelled to walk in the shadow of her sun. Of todays stars not one may be deemed worthy of stepping even within a mile of that shadow.

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Spotlighting all of Elizabeth Taylor's films over the course of her 70-year career this book

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Elizabeth the Jubilee Fairy is in charge of making every jubilee perfect! But when Jack Frost steals Elizabeth's Diamond Sceptre both fairy & human celebrations are headed for catastrophe. Can Kirsty & Rachel help Elizabeth find the sceptre so kings & queens everywhere can celebrate in style? ...

This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round up-close picture of one of the most fascinating enigmatic & admired women in the world. With exclusive access to the Queen's personal letters close friends & associates this intimate biography is a treasure trove of fresh insights on her public persona & her private life. Here we see Queen Elizabeth going about her daily duties preparing for formal occasions playing with her children at the Palace crawling on her stomach to stalk deer donning yellow Marigolds to wash up after Balmoral cookouts & even changing a car wheel. Here we at last get to meet the leader strategist & diplomat; the daughter wife mother & grandmother
- Elizabeth the Queen.
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Elizabeth Woodville wife of Edward IV mother of Elizabeth of York & the Princes in the Tower & grandmother of Henry VIII has been vilified & defended in turn. Was she a cunning enchantress an ambitious advancer of her family's fortunes or a courageous & tragic figure who lost husbands brothers & sons during this turbulent period? Discover the real story of the ' White Queen'. Born into a family of Lancastrians the exceptionally beautiful Elizabeth captured the heart of the young Yorkist king Edward IV & found herself caught in the complex web of rivalries loves & conspiracies that lay at the heart of the Wars of the Roses. She would wield immense influence as queen watch her brother-in-law confine her sons to the Tower of London to face an unknown fate & ultimately unite the Houses of Lancaster & Y ork through the marriage of her daughter to Henry Tudor. ...

Francis Walsingham was the first spymaster in the modern sense. His methods anticipated those of MI5 & MI6 & even those of the KGB. He maintained a network of spies across Europe including double-agents at the highest level in Rome & Spain
- the sworn enemies of Queen Elizabeth & her Protestant regime. His entrapment of Mary Queen of Scots is a classic intelligence operation that resulted in her execution. As Robert Hutchinson reveals his cypher experts ability to intercept other peoples secret messages & his brilliant forged letters made him a fearsome champion of the young Elizabeth. Yet even this machiavellian schemer eventually fell foul of Elizabeth as her confidence grew (and judgement faded). The rise & fall of Sir Francis Walsingham is a Tudor epic vividly narrated by a historian with unique access to the surviving documentary evidence.
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Elizabeth I was born into a world of women. As a child she was served by a predominantly female household of servants & governesses with occasional visits from her mother Anne Bolyen & the wives who later took her place. As Queen Elizabeth was constantly attended by ladies of the bedchamber & maids of honour who clothed her bathed her & watched her while she ate. Among her family it was her female relations who had the greatest influence: from her sister Mary who distrusted & later imprisoned her to her cousin Mary Queen of Scots who posed a constant & dangerous threat to her crown for almost thirty years. Despite the importance of women in Elizabeths life most historians & biographers have focused on her relationships with men. She has been portrayed as a mans woman who loved to flirt with the many ambitious young men who frequented her court. Yet it is the women in her life who provide the most fascinating insight into the character of this remarkable monarch. With them she was jealous spiteful & cruel as well as loyal kind & protective. She showed her frailties & her insecurities but also her considerable shrewdness & strength. In short she was more human than the public persona she presented to the rest of the court. It is her relationships with women that hold the key to the private Elizabeth. In this original chronicling of the life of one of Englands greatest monarchs historian Tracy Borman explores Elizabeths relationships with the key women in her life. Beginning with her mother & the governesses & stepmothers who cared for the young princess including her beloved Kat Astley & the inspirational Katherine Parr Elizabeths Women" sheds new light on her formative years. Elizabeths turbulent relationships with her rivals are examined: from her sister Bloody Mary to the sisters of Lady Jane Grey & finally the most deadly of all her rivals Mary Queen of Scots who would give birth to the man Elizabeth would finally inevitably have to recognise as heir to her throne. It is a chronicle of the servants friends & flouting wenches who brought out the best
- & the worst
- of Elizabeths carefully cultivated image as Gloriana the Virgin Queen in the glittering world of her court."

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