by Carolyn Meyer
I picked this book up in the throes of my mild obsession with Queen Elizabeth I. Eh. It was all right, but I didn’t feel any real insights into Elizabeth’s character. It would be good for a child interested in Elizabeth’s life to start out with. (March 2008)
in a sentence: Princess Elizabeth, the beautiful bastard child of Henry VIII, struggles through her sister Mary's persecution and her romantic trials through - and eventual abandonment - of marriage. All of this while she is waiting to become Queen of England.The historical fiction novel is told fro...