Marriage with My Kingdom: The Courtships of Elizabeth I

by Plowden, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780750921978
• ISBN10: 0750921978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd

Summary

Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In 1558, on her Catholic sister Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for 45 years. Loved and respected by her subjects and idolized by future generations, Gloriana's fierce devotion to her country and its people made her England's fairest queen and icon. Royal marriage in the age of Elizabeth was a political business. Unions between great families could be the key to security at home and to the making of great empires. No one represented a better prize than Elizabeth. She encouraged attention and spent her life surrounded by suitors, but she remained, until the end, married only to her kingdom. This, the third volume of Alison Plowden's Elizabethan quartet, plots the true story of the Virgin Queen's courtships and her career as the greatest tease in history.

Table of Contents

Prologue	xi
The King's Last Daughter	13	(16)
The Noblest Man Unmarried in This Land	29	(18)
Le plus beau gentilhomme d'Angleterre	47	(15)
No Alliance More Advantageous than That with the Duke of Savoy	62	(15)
I Am Already Wedded to an Husband	77	(14)
If the Emperor So Desires Me for a Daughter	91	(15)
Lord Robert Would Be Better in Paradise	106	(18)
Without a Certain Heir, Living and Known	124	(15)
Talk Is All of the Archduke	139	(18)
To Marry with France	157	(17)
A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go	174	(18)
Envoi	192	(6)
A Note on Sources	198	(3)
Notes	201	(10)
Index	211