The Virgin's Lover

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PHILIPPA GREGORY ^tJ
Q^ "The queen of royal fiction."—USA Today
A young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, the wife who cannot forgive them.
IN THE AUTUMN OF 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth is the new queen. One woman hears the tiding with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be.
Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: Can he really set... Tovább

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
PHILIPPA GREGORY ^tJ
Q^ "The queen of royal fiction."—USA Today
A young woman on the brink of greatness, a young man whose ambition exceeds his means, the wife who cannot forgive them.
IN THE AUTUMN OF 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth is the new queen. One woman hears the tiding with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be.
Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: Can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.
Intelligent, romantic, and compelling. The Virgins Lover answers the question about an unsolved crime that has fascinated detectives and historians for centuries.
PRAISE FOR PHILIPPA GREGORY
"SEXY SCANDALOUS SMART." —Redbook
"Philippa Gregory turns real-life historical-royalty into ROYALLY ENTERTAINING novels."—Hwe
"If only grade-school history books were WRITTEN SO VIVIDLY."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Spunky female protagonists in thoroughly researched, wonderfully realized settings MAKE A PERIOD COME ALIVE." —TheBoston Globe
^^^^^ PHILIPPA GREGORY is the author of several bestselling novels, includ-'i^B^X ing The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women's history. She stodied history at the University of Sussex and received a Ph.D. at the University —-C_ of Edinburgh. She welcomes visitors to her website, www.philippagregory.com. Vissza