“Another historic novel from Weir and another success. This book starts at approximately age 3. She is reeling from the recent beheading of her Mother and her Father King Henry isn't really happy. These early years really shaped the character and the intent of this Henry's youngest daughter. The book explores her relationship with her Father, all of her step-mothers and her younger brother Edward. Elizabeth learned early in life to survive court politics and the death of her father, King Henry VIII. Edward's reign, young as he was ended in his death from health issues. Mary, the victim of such emotional strife and uncertainty in life becomes the hunter of Protestants and earns the name, "Bloody Mary." All of these events including her internment in the Tower twenty years after her mother molded Elizabeth into the iconic Queen Elizabeth I. Her reign was a successful and peaceful reign for England. ”
khabira wrote this review Wednesday, September 5, 2012.
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