Review: Brief but needs editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
On the whole this it's a quick and easy read, but several mistakes lead me to wonder if I was reading historical fact or convenient fiction. In chapter 3, the author demotes Elizabeth's half-sister, Mary, and half-brother, Edward, to step siblings; which in most uses of the terms implies a relation by marriage only. Since all of the siblings at presumably the spawn of the same father, which is the sole reason for their being in the line of succession it is distressing that a historically focused book would get such a fact wrong.Another glaring and inexcusable error occurs in chapter 7 when the author states that Elizabeth was quite healthy until 1802, but later dies in 1603. Is there anything more important to check in a history book than dates???