{"product_id":"elizabeth-the-queen-by-alison-weir-9780099524250","title":"Elizabeth, the Queen","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant book about one of England's most famous queens, from one of our bestselling historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElizabeth, the Queen\u003c\/em\u003e begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign. Both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to her dealings—sometimes comical, sometimes poignant—with her many suitors, her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots, and her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior, here, in rich, vivid and colourful detail, Alison Weir helps us come as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant, shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book.\u003c\/em\u003e The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47995392196844,"sku":"9780099524250","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099524250-elizabeth-the-queen.jpg?v=1784895524","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/elizabeth-the-queen-by-alison-weir-9780099524250","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}