![]() Among all this, she had been taught the most advanced curriculum of the day. Not much later she was an accused traitor on the verge of execution in the Tower. At sixteen she was the head of a great princely household. She had been Princess and inheritrix of England - then bastardized and disinherited. ![]() ![]() This absorbing new book, by concentrating on the early years from her birth in 1533 to her accession in 1558, shows how her experiences of danger and adventure formed her remarkable character and shaped her opinions and beliefs.For in her youth she had experienced every vicissitude of fortune and every extreme of condition. A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I.An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual yet - she said - a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as England's most successful ruler. ![]()
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