Ebook: After Elizabeth
Author: de Lisle Leanda
- Tags: Kings and rulers, Kings and rulers--Succession, Biographies, Biography, History, James -- I -- King of England -- 1566-1625, Great Britain -- History -- James I 1603-1625, Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography, Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession -- History -- 17th century, Kings and rulers -- Succession, Great Britain
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Language: English
- epub
Many volumes have been written about the long reign of Elizabeth I. Now, for the first time, comes a brilliant new work that focuses on the critical year her reign ended, a time in which England lost its childless queen and a Machiavellian struggle ensued to find her successor.
December 1602. After forty-four years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth is in decline. The formidable ruler whose motto is Semper eadem (I never change) has become a dithering old woman, missing teeth and wearing makeup half an inch thick. The kingdom has been weakened by the cost of war with Spain and the simmering discontent of both the rich and the poor. The stage has been set, at long last, for succession. But the Queen who famously never married has no heir.
Elizabeth's senior relative is James VI of Scotland, Protestant son of Elizabeth's cousin Mary Queen of Scots. But as a foreigner and a Stuart, he is excluded from the throne under English law. The road to and beyond his coronation...