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  • If you want to establish the time line of Philippa Gregory's Tudor novels they would go: The Constant Princess (Katherine of Aragon); The Other Boleyn Girl (Anne Boleyn); The Boleyn Inheritance (Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard); The Queens Fool (Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I); The Virgin’s Lover (E ... Continue

    If you want to establish the time line of Philippa Gregory's Tudor novels they would go: The Constant Princess (Katherine of Aragon); The Other Boleyn Girl (Anne Boleyn); The Boleyn Inheritance (Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard); The Queens Fool (Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I); The Virgin’s Lover (Elizabeth I) and The Other Queen (Mary Queen of Scots).

    

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  • Portrayal of Elizabeth as a slutty, indecisive woman who didn't really have what it takes to make it as a Queen. Basically, William Cecil is the one who knows how to be royal. Didn't agree with this interpretation at all. Made Eliazbeth nothing more than an accomplished flirt, and even in that she f ... Continue

    Portrayal of Elizabeth as a slutty, indecisive woman who didn't really have what it takes to make it as a Queen. Basically, William Cecil is the one who knows how to be royal. Didn't agree with this interpretation at all. Made Eliazbeth nothing more than an accomplished flirt, and even in that she fails because Robert Dudley out flirts her. The most interesting thing about this is that the author postulates that Elizabeth had Amy Dudley killed as the only way to be free from marrying Robert Dudley. [return][return]

    

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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, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will pull her husband back to the very center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Amy had hoped that the merciless ambitions of the Dudley family had died on Tower Green when Robert's father was beheaded and his sons shamed; but the peal of bells she hears is his summons once more to power, intrigue, and a passionate love affair with the young queen. Can Amy's steadfast faith in him, her constant love, and the home she wants to make for them in the heart of the English countryside compete with the allure of the new queen?

Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country, riven by enmity, where treason is normal 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 irresistible, ambitious Robert Dudley.

Robert revels in the opportunities of the new reign. The son of an aristocratic family brought up in palaces as the equal of his royal playmates, Robert knows he can reclaim his destiny at Elizabeth's side. Elizabeth cannot resist his courtship, and as the young couple slowly falls in love, Robert starts to think the impossible: can he set aside his wife and marry the young queen?

Philippa Gregory's The Virgin's Lover answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries. Philippa Gregory uses documents and evidence from the Tudor era and, with almost magical insight into the desires of Robert Dudley and his lovers, paints a picture of a country on the brink of greatness, a young woman grasping at her power, a young man whose ambition is greater than his means, and the wife who cannot forgive them.

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