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Elizabeth I is perhaps England`s most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the Product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father`s Title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned by her half sister Mary. But in 1558, on Mary`s death, she ascended the throne and reigned for forty-five years. Respected by her Subjects and idolised by future generations, Gloriana`s fierce devotion to her country and its people truly made her England`s fairest queen and icon.
In the wake of Reformation Europe lay deeply divided by religion. This, the second volume of Alison Plowden`s acclaimed Elizabethan quartet, charts the dramatic and many-faceted struggle between Elizabeth and the Catholics of England and the rest of Europe who, denouncing the queen as a heretic, a bastard and a usurper, threatened to overthrow her and re-establish the supremacy of Rome in all Christendom.