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Fine condition red cloth boards, gold front cover gold decoration, with gold spine lettering and decoration contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book by Mary M. Luke; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preface by Mary M. Luke; Preliminary Page Quotes Mary I, Edward VI, and Elizabeth I; Addendum; Bibliography; Reference, Notes and Comments and Index. Illustrated with two sections (16 pages) of black-and-white portrait plates and two-color illustrated front and rear endpapers. Upper dust jacket spine edge chips and some general light jacket rubbing wear. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square condition (see photographs). Signed by the author, Mary M. Luke, with blue pen at the upper center section of the half title page. "Only in their royalty were they alike. Each of the three children of England's mighty Henry VIII - Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward Tudor - had a different mother and a different religious background. Yet they shared a magnificent dream, a dream for which they were willing to lie, intrigue, and, if necessary, die - the attainment of the monarchy itself. Intensely intimate and immediate, for much of this stunning narrative is drawn from letters and records of the period, A Crown For Elizabeth chronicles the years 1536 - 1558 - a time of turmoil and conflict remarkable for so comparatively brief a span - the years in which the young Tudors matured in the shadow of their dynamic and tyrannical father. Elizabeth Tudor inherited the Crown when she was twenty-five years old. As the daughter of Henry's second queen, the bewitching Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth spent her adolescence observing her father's matrimonial marathon, as queens were cast aside or followed her mother to the block. In a court where power politics often determined individual destiny, Elizabeth early developed an enviable instinct for self-preservation. Exercising her motto, "I See and I Am Silent," she risked seduction by her brother's uncle and imprisonment by her older sister, all the while eluding every political trap set for her. With a chafing impatience and few friends - for experience had taught her caution - she waited for the Crown. When it came, she was ready. The challenges and hazards her brother and sister had faced had been Elizabeth Tudor's school. She never repeated their mistakes. Her older sister, Mary Tudor, was the daughter of Catharine of Aragon, whose divorce from Henry VIII sparked the scandal of the century. Once the proud Princess of Wales, Mary was bastardized at seventeen and relentlessly persecuted by her own father for her stubborn refusal to accept Henry's supremacy as head of the church. Plain, straightforward, and scrupulously honest, Mary Tudor fought for the Crown with immense courage. Her great mistake - her consuming passion for her younger cousin, Prince Philip of Spain, and their subsequent marriage - turned her...
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