Elizabeth Is Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men Stedall Robert
Elizabeth Is Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men Stedall Robert Elizabeth I's Final Years outlines the interwoven relationships and rivalries between politicians and courtiers…
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Elizabeth Is Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men Stedall Robert
Elizabeth I's Final Years outlines the interwoven relationships and rivalries between politicians and courtiers surrounding England's omnipotent queen in the years following the death in 1588 of the Earl of Leicester. They failed to appreciate that the parsimonious queen would always resist military aggression and resolutely backed her meticulously cautious advisors, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and later his son Robert.With its access to New World treasure, it was Spain who threatened the fragile balance of power in Continental Elizabeth now surrounded herself with magnetically attractive younger men with the courtly graces to provide her with what Alison Weir has called 'an eroticized political relationship'.With these 'favorites' holding sway at court, they saw personal bravery in the tiltyard or on military exploits as their means to political authority.