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Virgin: Prelude to the Throne

2001 • 256 pages

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Usually it does not take me this long to read a 230-odd page book! I guess it was because it was a slow starter. (That and I was rereading “[b:Breaking Dawn 1162543 Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) Stephenie Meyer http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416pfGGLM0L.SL75.jpg 2960529]”!). But a lil over halfway through the pace picked up and boom done. This book takes us back to Elizabeth I as a teenager, after her father's death. Her 10 year old brother, Edward, is now King, his uncle Edward Seymour, his Protector. She lives with her stepmother, Catherine Parr, who shortly marries Thomas Seymour, King Edward's other uncle and his Protector's brother. Confused? But anyway, the book takes us through Elizabeth's alleged affair with Thomas and it's consequences. A lot of family feuding as with the Tudor times. Good book and it should be a quick read!

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