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This is the tale of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human associations which lay in the centre of her personal and politics life. Using a wide range of original sources - including private words, portraits, verse, drama, and state documents - Susan Doran offers a vivid and frequently dramatic profile of politics life in Elizabethan Britain and the queen at its middle. Doran offers a deeper insight into Elizabeth's mental and political conduct, and challenges many of the popular myths that have grown up around her. It is a tale replete with amazing questions. That which was the true dynamics of Elizabeth's marriage with her daddy, Henry VIII - especially after his execution of her mother? How close was she to her half-brother Edward VI - and were relations with her half-sister Mary really as poisonous as is popularly assumed? And what of her marriage with her Stewart cousins, most famously with Mary Queen of Scots, performed on Elizabeth's purchases in 1587, but also with Mary's boy James VI of Scotland, later to succeed Elizabeth as her chosen successor? Elizabeth's relations with her family were important, but just as important were her relations with her courtiers and her councilors. Here again, the story raises a bunch of amazing questions. Was the queen really sexually jealous of her maids of honor? Do physically attractive male favorites dominate her judge? Exactly what does her long and personal marriage with the Earl of Leicester reveal about her character, personality, and attitude to relationship? What can nov Essex reveal about Elizabeth's politics management in the final many years of her reign? And that which was the true dynamics of her personal and politics relationship with influential and long-serving councilors such as the Cecils and Sir Francis Walsingham? And how did courtiers and councilors package with their requiring royal mistress?
