Courting the virgin queen : Queen Elizabeth I and her suitors
Lloyd, Carol Ann2024
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The many courtships of the woman who became Elizabeth I began when she was an infant, displayed before foreign ambassadors who considered her as a possible clause of a contract between England and France. From an unromantic beginning, Elizabeth grew to see her father marry multiple times and experienced frequent changes in stepmothers and status in the family. Eventually, she became the most eligible woman in Europe. From start to finish, her marriage prospects were as much political as they were personal. When she came to the throne in 1558, the primary question facing everyone from foreign monarchs to English nobles and ministers was which of her many suitors would finally win her hand. Elizabeth used courtship as a tool to consider foreign alliances, hold ambitious English courtiers in check, and navigate her role as a woman ruler in a world that considered her unnatural without a man at her side.
Main title:
Courting the virgin queen : Queen Elizabeth I and her suitors / Carol Ann Lloyd.
Author:
Lloyd, Carol Ann, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2024.
Collation:
232 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399043427 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.055092942.055 LLOY
Language:
English
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BRN:
2738033
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