My Enemy, the Queen

Victoria Holt


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My Enemy, the Queen by Victoria Holt
To win the heart of the most dashing man in England, Lettice Knollys would need to employ all her charms and her courage. For Robert Dudley was the Queen's acknowledged lover, and in a land where Elizabeth's word was law, the shadow of the axe fell chill on those who offended her.

Is Queen Elizabeth I too wily or too afraid to marry? Or is there a spoiler -- Lettice Devereaux -- in the royal romances? The marriage between this beautiful and tempestuous widow and Elizabeth's longtime favorite, the Earl of Leicester, can't have endeared Lettice to the queen.

Some years later, on Leicester's death, another courtier wins the queen's heart -- only to break it by secretly marrying someone else and then by plotting against the Crown. This soldier-poet, the Earl of Essex, is the son of Lettice and her first husband, Walter Devereaux.
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