Elizabeth and Leicester: The Truth about the Virgin Queen and

Elizabeth and Leicester: The Truth about the Virgin Queen and the Man She Loved

View our feature on Sarah Gristwoodâ€™s Elizabeth & Leicester.Though the story has been told on filmâ€”and whispered in historic gossipâ€”this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queenâ€™s attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue, their relationship set the explosive connection between public and private life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why did they never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsession was actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicester reignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.

Elizabeth and Leicester: The Truth about the Virgin Queen and the Man She Loved