Queen elizabeth the 1st biography books
The best books on elizabeth i!
The best books on Elizabeth I
Tell me about your first choice, Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue, edited by David Starkey and Susan Doran.
I chose this one because it is a catalogue of an excellent exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in 2003.
Queen elizabeth the 1st biography books
That was one of a whole lot of events and publications for the 400-year anniversary of Elizabeth’s death in 1603. This volume is particularly interesting because it is a really rich, full, broad catalogue where they tried to present some unusual things that people haven’t seen before, because, of course, Elizabeth I is so familiar to us.
There were lots of really unusual things like a locket ring that belonged to Elizabeth which contains two pictures. It has a jewel on the front that opens up and you see one picture of Elizabeth in profile and another which appears to be her mother Anne Boleyn.
And that’s very interesting because Elizabeth never publicly mentioned or acknowledged her mother, for obvious reasons because she h