Elizabeth: The Love of the Virgin Queen

A new book from the bestselling author of "The Grand Duchess Olga", "Cleopatra", and "Nefertiti". A gripping novel about the greatest queen whose reign earned the fame of the "Golden Age".

In Elizabeth I of England’s life, there was everything—her father’s rage and her mother’s execution, years of disgrace and a death sentence, nearly half a century in power and numerous plots against her life, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the worldwide glory of the Mistress of the Seas, devotion and curses, love and hate, loyalty and betrayals… There was only one thing missing—marriage. Rejecting all royal suitors, including Ivan the Terrible, Elizabeth went down in history as the Virgin Queen.

Why didn’t the most enviable bride of her time—surrounded by dazzling claimants for her hand—find a husband? Was her heart already taken—or was it a conscious choice, a refusal to submit to a man even within marriage? Was the queen truly childless—or perhaps not? The facial features of the genius William Shakespeare resemble the royal ones too clearly, and there are too many mysteries in his fate…

Elizabeth carried all these secrets with her, yet how tempting it is to try to unravel them!