Courtships of Queen Elizabeth
Subtitle: A History of the Various Negotiations for Her Marriage
Publisher: Arden Library
Published: December 1981
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9780849524288
Subjects: History: American
First sentence: THE greatest diplomatic game ever played on the world's chessboard was that consummate succession of intrigues which for nearly half a century was carried on by Queen Elizabeth and her ministers with the object of playing off one great Continental power against another for the benefit of England and Protestantism, with which the interests of the Queen herself were indissolubly bound up.