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Before Anne Boleyn stole the heart and soul of a ruler and demanded relationship, an other woman strove to wed an already-married King of England. This is actually the tale of Elfrida, who end up being the first crowned Queen of England. England is united under Edgar, but twenty years of uncertainty and a dwindling royal nursery have left the royal family susceptible to extinction. Edgar, a ruler at only 15 yrs . old, has an acknowledged daughter and wife, however the dying Ealdorman, Aethelwald, has commanded his wife to seek out the King, now in his early 20s. True to her husband's wants, Elfrida pursues the ruler, anxious of her husband's intentions, but trusting them all the same. Once the king will try to make her his concubine, Elfrida refuses and withdraws from the court docket, only to find herself fantasizing of the ruler, desiring his touch and his presence. When the ruler seeks her out once more, she willingly employs him back to his court docket and discovers herself plunged into an environment of politics and self-interest where her future joy rests not only on the ruler caring her but also on the goodwill of others with much to learn for at the king's court docket. Bringing alive the people of 10th-century England: its young ruler, Edgar; its ealdormen, Brythnoth, Æthelwine, and Úlfhere; the great reforming religious results of Archbishop Dunstan, Bishop Æthelwold and Oswald and the great women of the time, Lady Elfrida, Woman Æthelflaed and Woman Wulfthryn, The First Queen of England evokes 10th-century England at its most enigmatic, shining a pleasant light on England's first crowned queen, a female who would continue to accomplish much, but who must first steal the heart of the amorous ruler and earn her place at court docket, and get over the obstacle of the results of not only the king's second relationship, but also his first.
