Elizabeth (Radio Collection)
by:
David Starkey (author)
ISBN:
9780754075509 (0754075508)
Publish date: November 4th 2002
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Politics,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
16th Century
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A very thorough examination of Elizabeth's formative years before gaining the throne that manages, for the most part, to avoid getting tangled up in all the titles and and descendants of various nobles. (No small task or easy feat. This has tripped up some other very good writers.) An intriguing ...
One of the better,and more accessible biographies about Elizabeth I, focusing more on her life as a child and adolescent, during the reigns of her father, Henry VIII, her younger brother Edward VI, and elder sister, Mary I. Quite a bit is devoted to the scandal about Thomas Seymour, and later, Thoma...
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