Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, whichrecounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns hermasterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become Englandâ?™s most intriguing and powerful queen.

Even at age two, Elizabeth is keenly aware that people in the court of herfather, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her as â?œLady Princessâ?and now call her â?œthe Lady Elizabeth.â? Before she is three, she learns of the tragic fate that has befallen her mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that she herself has been declared illegitimate, an injustice that will haunt her.

What comes next is a succession of stepmothers, bringing with them glimpses of love, fleeting security, tempestuous conflict, and tragedy. The death of
her father puts the teenage Elizabeth in greater peril, leaving her at the mercy of ambitious and unscrupulous men. Like her mother two decades earlier
she is imprisoned in the Tower of Londonâ?“and fears she will also meet her motherâ?™s grisly end. Power-driven politics, private scandal and public
gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, â?œBloodyâ? Queen Mary, all cement Elizabethâ?™s resolve in matters of statecraft
and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen.

Alison Weir uses her deft talents as historian and novelist to exquisitely and suspensefully play out the conflicts between family, politics, religion, and conscience that came to define anage. Sweeping in scope, The Lady Elizabeth is a fascinating portrayal of a woman far ahead of her timeâ?“an orphaned girl haunted by the shadow of the axe, an independent spirit who must use her cunning and wits for her very survival, and a future queen
whose dangerous and dramatic path to the throne shapes her future greatness.



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