Alice Loxton

The making of Good Queen Bess

Only by studying Elizabeth I’s traumatic early life can we make sense of her later years. Little wonder she trusted no one by the time she acceded to the throne, aged 25

A portrait of the young Elizabeth, aged about 13, attributed to William Scrots, c.1546. [Bridgeman Images]

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