The life of elizabeth i

Elizabeth the Queen (Elizabeth I in the USA) by Alison Weir – I love this book because Alison Weir writes in an engaging readable style and always backs up her theories with sources.

My UK paperback copy is over 500 pages long and contains illustrations, three genealogical tables, a note on sources, a bilbliography and, of course, an excellent examination of Elizabeth I’s life.

Elizabeth I by Anne Somerset (different cover in the US and some UK editions) is another fantastic biography of this iconic Queen of England.

My battered paperback edition is over 800 pages long and in it Anne Somerset explores Elizabeth I’s domestic and foreign conflicts, her religion, her sexuality, Elizabethan politics and the Tudor Court.

It includes illustrations, a family tree, notes and an extensive biliography.

Click here for details of US version.

“Elizabeth I” by Alison Plowden is a huge book – my copy is over 700 pages and they’re big pages!

– because it is actually 4 books