Elizabeth
- Author John Guy
- Narrator Alex Jennings
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 17 hours and 16 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography: royalty, European history.
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An ageing queen, an heirless state, conspiracy all round: here is the court of Elizabeth I as never known before.
History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We have not, until now, had the full picture.
This gripping and vivid portrait of her life and times -- often told in her own words (and including details such as her love of chess and marzipan) -- reveals a woman who was insecure, human ('You know I am no morning woman'), and unpopular even with the men who fought for her. This is the real Elizabeth, for the first time.
© John Guy 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016
Critics Review
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A beautifully rounded portrait of both the woman and the queen . . . This is a masterful biography.
Amanda Foreman -
A gripping story of Queen Elizabeth’s last years, authoritatively researched and engagingly recounted by the leading Tudor historian of our age
James Shapiro, author of 1599 and 1606 -
One of the very best historians we have in the country . . . It is brilliant, vigorous history, and a triumph of storytelling and scholarship
Telegraph -
Guy’s careful work with documents known and unknown, scattered throughout Europe’s archives, allows him to paint a novel portrait of a complex – maybe even unknowable – queen
Guardian -
The best biography ever written of the Virgin Queen – a revisionist, sensitive, compelling, majestic masterwork that you can’t put down
Evening Standard -
John Guy’s Elizabeth presents a beautifully rounded portrait of both the woman and the queen. Thanks to Guy’s prodigious use of previously untapped material, we see, for the very first time, the full panoply of ambition and insecurity, plotting and deceit that marked the middle years of her reign. This is a masterful biography.
Amanda Foreman
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