My Enemy the Queen

About this book

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 Elizabeths longtime favorite the Earl of Leicester cant have endeared Lettice to the queen. Some years later on Leicesters death another courtier wins the queens 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)