Elizabeth, Virgin Queen? by Philippa Jones
My Lord Robert [Dudley] hath given her [Elizabeth] a child … if she hath not, he hath put one to the making” Anne Dove, 1560
Good ‘Queen Bess’, ‘Faerie Queene’, ‘Gloriana’, Elizabeth I is known by many names, but none perhaps more memorably than as the ‘Virgin Queen’. But was this a lie? Propaganda generated at the time to preserve Elizabeth’s image as a strong, defiant queen in the complicated arena of 16th-century European politics? Historian Philippa Jones challenges many of the myths surrounding Elizabeth, using primary source material to do so, and reveals the passionate young woman behind the ‘Virgin Queen’.
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–Sunday Express
FORMAT: Paperback
EDITION: New Holland
PUBLICATION DATE: 2009
CONDITION: Good
CLASSIFICATION: Non-fiction/History/Biography
1501/AV
Price: £3.50