num_pages: 436
description: Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth "the Virgin Queen's" passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. In this exquisite sequel to The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Robin Maxwell fashions a stunning fictional account of the child switched at birth by a lady-in-waiting who foresaw the deleterious political consequences of a royal bastard.  Set against the sweeping, meticulously rendered backdrop of court intrigues, international scandals, and England's battle against the Spanish Armada, The Queen's Bastard deftly juxtaposes Elizabeth and Leicester's tumultuous relationship with the memoirs of the adventurous son lost to them -- yet ultimately discovered.
language: English
title: The Queen's Bastard
titlecomplete: The Queen's Bastard
characters: Arthur Dudley, Elizabeth I of England, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
genres: Historical, Adult Fiction, Historical Romance, Elizabethan Period, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Tudor Period, Romance, 16th Century, British Literature
ratings_count: 2820
publisher: Scribner