In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be.
Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.
Philippa Gregory's "The Virgin's Lover" answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Intelligent, romantic, and compelling, "The Virgin's Lover" presents a young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them.

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In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley,… Развернуть 

В течение тридцати лет, с 1455 по 1485 годы, Ланкастеры, эмблемой которых была красная роза, вели войну за английский престол с династией Йорков (эмблема - белая роза). Соперничество между династиями, получившее романтическое название войны Алой и Белой Роз, закончилось браком Генриха VII и принцессы Елизаветы, дочери Эдуарда IV Йоркского. С тех пор алая роза стала национальной эмблемой Англии.

Об удивительно драматичной и яркой судьбе величественной и прекрасной Елизаветы пойдет речь в романе Маргарет Барнс.

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В течение тридцати лет, с 1455 по 1485 годы, Ланкастеры, эмблемой которых была красная роза, вели войну за английский престол с династией Йорков (эмблема - белая роза).… Развернуть