Rather Break than Bend
Clare Jackson: The Winter Queen, 26 May 2022
Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts
by Nadine Akkerman.
Oxford, 581 pp., £20, December 2021,978 0 19 966830 4 Show More
by Nadine Akkerman.
Oxford, 581 pp., £20, December 2021,
“... In a collection of essays published in 2005 to mark four hundred years since the Gunpowder Plot, Antonia Fraser imagined Elizabeth Stuart being crowned as Queen Elizabeth II in January 1606. ‘The Gunpowder Plot Succeeds’ describes the plotters’ confessed intention, in the chaos following the death of James VI and I in the explosion at Westminster, of abducting his eldest daughter from her governor’s home in Warwickshire ... ”