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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 princesss tumultuous life before her accession to the throne in 1588. Two 8-page color photo inserts. n nAn abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a mans world, passionately sexual--though, as she maintained, a virgin--Elizabeth I is famed as Englands most successful ruler. David Starkeys brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeths 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.n nFrom 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 womans turbulent, courageous, and seemingly impossible journey toward the throne, Elizabeth is the exhilarating story of the making of a queen.n
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