Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 537 pages) : illustrations |
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Contents |
A fair young lady -- Disdained with dishonour -- The princess of Scotland -- Suffering in sorrow -- Now may I mourn -- Beware the third time -- A strong man of personage -- This happy match -- Great unnaturalness -- The person best suited to succeed -- The second person in the kingdom -- Her son should be king -- Indignation and punishment -- Lady Lennox's disgrace -- Strait imprisonment -- In great trouble -- Horrible and abominable murder -- Business most vile -- Treason bereft me -- The hasty marriage -- Till death do finish my days -- A progenitor of princes. |
Summary |
-- Praise for Alison Weir's -- "Weir tells Elizabeth's story well. ... She is a meticulous scholar. Most important, (she) sincerely admires her subject, doing honor to an almost forgotten queen. -- -- "--Huntington News From the Hardcover edition. |
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A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth-century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-460) and index. |
System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
Subject |
Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess of, 1515-1578.
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Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 -- Family.
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Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 -- Family.
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Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. |
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Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess of, 1515-1578. |
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Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587. |
Chronological Term |
1485-1603 |
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Nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Families. |
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Nobility. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Biography.
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Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain. |
Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Weir, Alison, 1951- Lost Tudor princess London : Jonathan Cape, 2015 9780224089807 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Weir, Alison, 1951- Lost Tudor princess New York : Ballantine Books, [2016] 9780345521392 (DLC) 2015037958 (OCoLC)908517222 |
ISBN |
9780345521415 : $54.00 |
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0345521412 : $54.00 |
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