A queen, despite her rank, is no exception. In an age when the perspective of men was dominate, historians often struggle to find the voices of women. The lives of medieval women is oftentimes a difficult story to tell. overcompensating for a distinct lack of anything else.What I would have been more impressed with is a tome of quality rather than quantity. And sometimes this is all we ever have.Thirdly, as with all her other factual accounts, we are bombarded with detail, presumption and very little substance.I am trying very hard to fathom the amount of actual information there is on Elizabeth that was worthy of 600 odd pages - quite frankly it required barely a quarter in my opinion. This, I think I can add to the "did not like" pile.Firstly, Elizabeth's younger years are quite shadowy but Weir manages to flesh these out by giving us a history lesson - really the first seven chapters read like a tome on the Wars of the Roses - and I have books a-plenty on this subject.Secondly, again with very little information on her married life Weir instead references Elizabeth with the actions and events surrounding Henry Tudor, her husband. Although Weir is not my favourite author, I am prepared to put aside my dislike to read - and objectively - what she has written - and for the record I have read a number of her books - most I have disliked, one however, I did like. What did I think - not much I am sorry to say.
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