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My Enemy the Queen
Author: Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Jean Plaidy

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Publisher: Doubleday Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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ISBN-13: 9780385141116 - ISBN-10: 0385141114
Publication Date: 6/1978
Pages: 348


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged)

Book Description:
Is Queen Elizabeth I too wily or too afraid to marry? Or is there a spoiler -- Lettice Devereaux -- in the royal romances? The marriage between this beautiful and tempestuous widow and Elizabeth's longtime favorite, the Earl of Leicester, can't have endeared Lettice to the queen.

Some years later, on Leicester's death, another courtier wins the queen's heart -- only to break it by secretly marrying someone else and then by plotting against the Crown. This soldier-poet, the Earl of Essex, is the son of Lettice and her first husband, Walter Devereaux.

"Holt skillfully weaves invention and suspense into the fabric of history." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)


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Marci G. (GowerMeower) wrote on 3/3/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I could not put this down. Fascinating historical fiction about the 2nd wife of Robert Dudley and cousin to Elizabeth I (and obviously rival for Sir Robert's affections). I was so entranced by the story that when I went to Warwick Castle, I stopped by the church to see the tombs of Lettice and Robert Dudley.


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Hollie S. wrote on 10/15/2005...


NOT a hardback!


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