An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarch
A genius, a beauty, a leader, and a manipulator. Elizabeth I has fascinated and enthralled history buffs and Anglophiles for centuries. The era that bears her name was one of the most exciting and dazzling in England's history. Christopher Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers, aware of the challenges women face in wielding power, to perhaps history's greatest monarch.
Christopher Hibberthas written many well-received biographies, including, most recently,
Queen Victoria.He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Doctor of Letters of Leicester University.