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Young Elizabeth Tudor navigates deadly court politics, family tragedy, and peril from cast-aside princess to iconic queen.
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Young Elizabeth Tudor navigates deadly court politics, family tragedy, and peril from cast-aside princess to iconic queen.
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Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England's most intriguing and powerful queen.Even at age two, Elizabeth is keenly aware that people in the court of her father, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her as "Lady ...
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Sexual content
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Seymour affair with sensual intimacy; courtly romantic intrigue
Violence & gore
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Executions and beheadings; imprisonment; Tudor court peril
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Catholic-Protestant conflict and persecution central to plot
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Elizabeth twice believes she sees her mother's ghost
Political content
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Tudor succession politics and power struggles drive the story
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Sexual coercion of teen Elizabeth; mother's execution; imprisonment
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