The Virgin Queen: A Personal History of Elizabeth 1: Personal History of Elizabeth I

by Christopher Hibbert (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.26

  In her lifetime the cult of Queen Elizabeth, the virginal genius of a golden age, the beauteous Queen of second Troy , rivalled that of the Virgin Mary herself. Praised for her wit and high intelligence, her consumate statecraft, her bravery and learning, and for a beauty as radiant as the sun , she was considered so desirable a bride that even the Pope felt constrained to propose that she would make him a marvellous wife. This book presents a revealing portrait of an extraordinary woman by turns courageous and timid, gracious and violently cantankerous, kind and spiteful, sensitive and coarse, realistic yet grotesquely vain, at once so forceful and so vacillating and unpredictable that one of her principal minister complained in exasperation that she drove him up the wall . Based on a wide range of contemporary documents and recent scholarship, Christopher Hibbert has drawn a picture of this fascinating and difficult woman, set firmly against the background her tumultuous times.

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.26

  The author discusses the limitations of Elizabeth I's powers, and reveals ministers' techniques of hood-winking her. Also, her more sinister side when she ordered torture and delighted in bear-baiting. Hibbert recreates the atmosphere of her faction-ridden court and draws a picture of a fascinating and difficult woman, set against the background of her tumultuous times. The author also wrote Africa Explored , Benito Mussolini , Edward VII and Days of the French Revolution .

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  Paperback
  1992

  $22.86

  An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarch.