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From "an excellent new player in the judge of royal fiction" (People) comes the mesmerizing storyline of Woman Penelope Devereux - the daring young beauty in the Tudor judge who encouraged Sir Philip Sidney's famous sonnets whilst she plotted against Queen Elizabeth. Penelope Devereux finds Queen Elizabeth's judge, where she and her sibling, the earl of Essex, are drawn into the increasing age queen's favor. Young and naive, Penelope, though promised elsewhere, falls in love with Philip Sidney, who pours his heartbreak into the now common sonnet series Astrophil and Stella. But Penelope is soon married off to a guy who loathes her. Never fainthearted, she decides her point in time and attacks a package with her husband: After she gives delivery to two sons, she will be absolve to live as she decides, with whom she decides. But she is to discover that the span of real love is never soft. On the other hand Robert Cecil, ever before loyal to Elizabeth, has his vision on Penelope and her sibling. Although it seems the earl of Essex can do no wrong in the eye of the queen, as his impact grows, so his opponents accumulate. Penelope must draw on all her politics savvy to save her sibling from his own ballooning ambition and Cecil's capture while daring to arrange for a meeting it is treason even to think about. Unfolding during the period of 2 decades and advised from the perspectives of Penelope and her very best opponent, the devious politician Cecil, Watch the Lady chronicles the previous gasps of Elizabeth's reign and the deadly scramble for vitality in a dying dynasty.
