How could I have known so many years ago, when I first learned about – and began to question – my existence, that there were no real answers?There were stories. Most of them true. But they were only stories, with no answers in them. And, try as they might, none of my protectors had ever been able to find the truth that would explain me.Truth that might have saved so many lives these last months. Lives lost protecting me, my honorary uncle among them. How many more lives would be lost to save mine? Because so many people wanted to find me for so many reasons and would go to any lengths for those reasons. Any lengths at all. In the end, would my life be lost to them, also?Because, despite all the attempts to figure me out, no one had been able to so far. I was a complete mystery. An enigma. A phenomenon.Because my father wasn't really my father. The truth was, I had no father.I was – I am – the virgin's daughter.
The story of Elizabeth I, as it's never been told before-through the eyes of two ladies-in-waiting closest to her.
The Virgin's Daughter
Eleanor Percy Howard Gage Stafford (she had a gift for outliving husbands) drew male eyes wherever she went, no matter that she was nearing fifty. But then Eleanor had always had the trick of making the most of her assets.
he asked Martin. “To make you see sense. Dane did you a favour, pulling you out of Cahir before it was too late.” “It was only too late because Dane made good and certain to blow my cover.” “You did that yourself—the moment you allowed ...
We read now about Sydney, the virgin's daughter, hidden by a ruler, known to none of the court, but beloved and a once and future queen of the most powerful empire in the world.
In her sweeping historical debut, Ella March Chase explores a thrilling possibility: that the Tudor bloodline did not end with the Virgin Queen.
The Virgin's Daughters: In the Court of Elizabeth I
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist.
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