Elizabeth I. The Marriage Game

Their love affair caused a scandal in Europe. No wonder, the dazzling Elizabeth Tudor, who declared herself the «Virgin Queen», could not contain her feelings for Lord Robert Dudley, a married man holding a high position at court. In the... Christian world, she was already taken for an illegitimate heretic who had forcibly seized the throne, and now this scandal. Nevertheless, heirs of many royal families still seek her favor, hoping to marry the queen. But Elizabeth is clever: by neither saying «yes» nor «no», she keeps them at bay, yet does not extinguish their hopes. The common folk call this «marriage games»… The second part of the duology continues the story of the great English queen, begun by Alison Weir in the novel «Lady Elizabeth».