![]() She personally believes Elizabeth was a virgin, but in the first third of the novel, she has Elizabeth having sex with her stepfather and then miscarrying the child. But one of the first things Weir does is violate her own sense of what actually happened. You have to credit Weir with creating a sympathetic character out of someone who tried during her reign to obliterate any trace of weakness or even of her past. Well, this novelized version of Elizabeth I's life preceding her coronation does take sides. You really wanted her to take a side, and she just wanted to give you all the information she had dug up. ![]() ![]() I read Weir's Eleanor of Aquitane and was bored stiff by all the contradicting accounts she included. ![]()
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