Great Leaders"How haps it? Yesterday my Lady Princess, today but my Lady Elizabeth," two-year-old Elizabeth is said to have remarked after her mother, Ann Boleyn, was beheaded and the little girl was declared illegitimate. She was thirteen-and-a-half when her father, King Henry VIII, died, and by then she was well skilled in the art of survival. She was twenty-five on her succession to the throne and determined to demonstrate...
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