Elizabeth
Subtitle: the struggle for the throne
By: David Starkey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, -- 1533-1603 -- Childhood and youth; Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Edward VI, 1547-1553; Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession; Great Britain -- History -- Mary I, 1553-1558
Genres: Biography.
Description: In this spirited United Kingdom bestseller, Starkey presents a brilliant examination of the formative years of the "Virgin Queen, " recreating a host of extravagant characters, mad-cap schemes, and tragic plots, while using original documents to depict the princess's tumultuous life before her accession to the throne in 1588. Two 8-page color photo inserts. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual -- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years -- from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558 -- and shows how the experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs. From princess and heir-apparent to bastardized and disinherited royal, accused traitor to head of the princely household, Elizabeth experienced every vicissitude of fortune and extreme of condition -- and rose above it all to reign during a watershed moment in history. A uniquely absorbing tale of one young woman's turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.
Notes: Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Struggle for the throne; title: Birth; title: Family; title: Infancy and mother's death; title: Childhood and education; title: Rehabilitation; title: Stepmother; Catherine Parr; title: Reformed religion; title: Royal father; title: Father's death; title: Brother; King Edward VI; title: Stepfather; Thomas Seymour; title: Adulthood; title: Hatfield; further education; title: Dudleys; title: Property; title: Rival sisters; title: Exclusion; Edward VI's will and death; title: Queen Mary; title: Spanish marriage; title: Rebellion; title: Retribution; title: Tower; title: Prisoner's progress; title: Imprisonment; the politics of protest; title: Imprisonment; personal resistance; title: New dynasty?; title: New England?; title: Royal pregnancy?; title: Parliamentary revolt; title: Elizabeth's first adventures; title: Honourable imprisonment; title: Marriage with menaces; title: Two portraits; Mary and Elizabeth; title: Power ebbs; title: Power flows; title: Enemy; Cardinal Pole; title: Two deaths; title: Accession; a new government; title: Between old and new; title: Coronation; title: Religion reformed; title: Limits of religious reform; practice; title: Limits of religious reform; persons; title: Promise fulfilled.