num_pages: 243
description: ...a riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic andvulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilousliaison with the wrong man.England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother, nine-year-old Edward, is king in name only. Thomas Seymour, brother to the ambitious duke who has seized power in this time of crisis, calculatingly works his way into Elizabeth's home in genteel Chelsea House. He marries Henry's widow, Catherine Parr, and uses his venerable charms and sexual magnetism to indulge his infatuation for young Elizabeth. Caught hopelessly under Thomas Seymour's spell, surrounded by kind friends and hidden enemies, Elizabeth can only follow her heart to ensure survival.
language: English
title: Virgin: Prelude to the Throne
titlecomplete: Virgin: Prelude to the Throne
characters: Elizabeth I of England
genres: Historical, Elizabethan Period, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Tudor Period, 16th Century, British Literature
ratings_count: 1354
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Scribner