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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Published by San Val, 2004
ISBN 10: 0965920852ISBN 13: 9780965920858
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Jumbo-sized. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE.
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 0965920852ISBN 13: 9780965920858
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. 454 Pages Indexed. March 2004 Printing of the January 2004 Edition. Minor cover edge and corneer wear. Tight bright book with nor marks of stamps. Faultless interiror text. Two center sections of color photographs. Four hundred years ago, on 24 March 1603, Elizabeth I died. She was in her 70th. Having been propped for days on cushions on the floor in her chamber, she had been persuaded to take to her bed at last. To her Archbishop of Canterbury she said the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. These words struck to the heart of the tragedy that had befallen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots. This same crown had been the focus of Mary's ambition too; her claim to Elizabeth's throne was the obsession of her adult life from which so many disasters flowed. Elizabeth realised that her crown and all the powerful interests that surrounded it were what drew her and Mary together, and yet fatally divided them. Despite possessing the throne of England, with all the pride of a daughter of King Henry, she was haunted by a deep-rooted insecurity as to her own legitimacy. When pressed by Parliament to sign Mary's death warrant, Elizabeth railed in anguish against the crown that had made this unnatural decision hers alone. Instead she wished that Mary and she were but as two milkmaids with pails upon our arms. It was their royal rather than their human status that had brought these queens to where one had to die. Sixteen years before Elizabeth's death in old age, Mary was beheaded at the age of forty-four. From that one act of a queen killing a fellow queen, a mythology of justification, romance, accusation and blame was spun that retained its force to today. Of all the monarchs it is Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots who most stir the imagination. They divided powerful opinion in their lifetimes and were the focus of passionate debate in the centuries that followed their deaths. Contents in 12 Chapters: The Fateful Step, The Disapointment of Kings, The Education of Princes, Apprenticeship for a Queen, Wilfulness and God's Will, Complicity and Competition, Raison de Coeur Raison de 'Etat, Seeking a Future King, Outrageous Fortune, Double Jeopardy, Singular Foes, and The Consequence of the Offence.
