The Young Elizabeth: The First Twenty-Five Years of Elizabeth I

by Plowden, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780750921923
• ISBN10: 0750921927
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father's title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned by her half-sister Mary. But in 1558, on Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for 45 years. Respected by her subjects and idolized by subsequent generations, Gloriana was fiercely devoted to her country and its people. In this first volume of her Elizabethan quartet, Alison Plowden charts the history of Elizabeth's first 25 years, telling the tale of Elizabeth's difficult childhood and her alternate status as princess and bastard, culminating in her coronation and the beginning of the legend.

Table of Contents

Genealogical Table	x
Prologue	xv
A Gentleman of Wales	I
The King's Great Matter	17	(16)
`An Incredible Fierce Desire to Eat Apples'	33	(16)
`Anne Sans Tete'	49	(15)
The King's Daughter	64	(16)
Elizabeth's Admiral	80	(17)
`The Peril that Might Ensue'	97	(18)
Sweet Sister Temperance	115	(17)
The Queen's Sister	132	(17)
`We Are All Englishmen'	149	(18)
Elizabeth, Prisoner	167	(18)
`A Second Person'	185	(16)
England's Elizabeth	201	(16)
Notes	217	(8)
Select Bibliography	225	(4)
Index	229