The Secret Life of Elizabeth I

£50 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

A detective story with a difference - tracking down the real Elizabeth I - capturing the atmosphere of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Written as a 'faction' it interprets original sources through one of Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting whose 'recollections' form this book. A lady-in-waiting describes the passionate relationship between Elizabeth and Robert Dudley. She reveals the stunning revelation that they had a son, Arthur Dudley, seized by the Spanish in 1587.

• Binding: Hardcover

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