num_pages: 591
description: Married at 14 to a foreigner she had never met — a man twice-widowed and more than twice her age, and one reputed to be stern and reserved, disdainful of every person and thing not Spanish — it is not surprising that Elizabeth was filled with dread during her lengthy journey towards her new husband. This double volume begins with Elizabeth the child — her birth and baptism; growing up with the young Mary Queen of Scots; her wedding and the traumas of adjusting to the rigid etiquette of the Spanish court. But the greater part of the book focuses on Elizabeth the Queen — beautiful, gracious, beloved by the husband she'd once feared, and equally devoted to him.
language: English
title: Elizabeth de Valois, Queen of Spain, and the Court of Philip II: From numerous unpublished sources, in the archives of France, Italy, and Spain. Vols 1 and 2
publisher: RenaissanceAlive.com