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Alison wier has certainly made the most of the primary source material she is privileged to delve into covering the vast amount of relevant people and events who were an important part of the elizabethan era

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Which i thought took up too much in the book and if you think about it i could also say she should have delved further into at least nine other people in elizabeth’s life whom are of interest to me but if alison weir had done this on each and every person this book would have had to have been written into ‘volumes’

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Very short for the cost of it

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It makes me too fully conscious of the pressures that were upon elizabeth and it fills me with admiration at the way she responded both as a woman and as a ruler to key events such as the threat posed by the behaviour of mary queen of scots

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The way elizabeth reacted in particular to the massacre of st bartholomew in france reminds me of the position the west is currently in having to compromise with assad against a worse evil

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You cannot help seeing correspondences between the pressures on elizabeth and those on todays politicians

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Somewhat drawn out and repetitive compared to say the wives of henry 8 by the same author

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Weir gives the reader much detail about elizabeths palaces and progresses the entertainments put on for her by her nobles when she visited their homes particularly robert dudley at kenilworth