![]() ![]() She spends much of her young adulthood as the forgotten, ill-favoured bastard daughter of King Henry VIII and his hated second wife Anne Boleyn. She is first overshadowed by her boy-king brother upon her father’s death, then imprisoned during the tumultuous reign of her older half sister. Unlike her older sister Mary, Elizabeth does not really remember a time when she was the favourite at court. But what do you really know about her, especially about her formative teen years? Well, after reading Beware, Princess Elizabeth you’ll definitely know why Elizabeth became such a powerful, influential ruler. Queen Elizabeth I is famous for being one of England’s most powerful monarchs ever, even though she reigned in a man’s era. Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth, this exciting novel reveals the deep-seated rivalry between a determined girl who became one of England’s most powerful monarchs and the sister who tried everything to stop her. Her father, Henry VIII, has beheaded her mother her jealous half sister, Mary, has her locked away in the Tower of London and her only love betrays her in his own quest for the throne. ![]() (Cover picture courtesy of Historicalfictions Wiki.)Įlizabeth Tudor’s teenage years are hardly those of a fairy-tale rpincess. ![]()
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