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England, late 1547. King Henry VIII Is dead. His fourteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the king’s widow, Catherine Parr, and her new husband, Thomas Seymour. Seymour is the brother of Henry VIII’s third wife, the late Jane Seymour, who was the mother to the now-ailing boy King.Ambitious and dangerous, Seymour begins and overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends with Catherine sending her away. When Catherine dies a year later and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, a scandal explodes. Alone and in dreadful danger, Elizabeth is threatened by supporters of her half-sister, Mary, who wishes to see England return to Catholicism. She is also closely questioned by the king’s regency council due to her place in the line of succession. Was she still a virgin? Was there a child? Had she promised to marry Seymour?Under pressure, Elizabeth shows the shrewdness and spirit she would later be famous for. She survives the scandal, but Thomas Seymour is not so lucky. The “Seymour Scandal” led Elizabeth and her advisers to create of the persona of the Virgin Queen.On hearing of Seymour’s beheading, Elizabeth observed, “This day died a man of much wit, and very little judgment.” His fate remained with her. She would never allow her heart to rule her head again.

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Genre	: History
Author	: Elizabeth Norton
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release	: 2016-01-15
File	: 416 Pages
ISBN-13	: 9781681770987

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CONTENTS
Prologue
6 FEBRUARY 1559

The great gallery at Whitehall, though capacious, was crowded that afternoon as the Council and a deputation of thirty members of the House of Commons filed in, following their Speaker.
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The woman who was the focus of their attention seemed slight beneath her canopy of estate, facing the clamorous throng.
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Gorgeously dressed, in clothes from a wardrobe that included fine satins and velvets, and cloth of gold and silk, Elizabeth had been proclaimed queen only three months before. Now she sat, pale-faced, upon the throne that had once been her father’s. Her long yellow-red hair was pinned up, away from her face. She wanted the world to see her as they had done her father – stern-faced, but also serene and majestic.
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Yet she was still young – only twenty-five. She was also unmarried, which, in a queen, was an aberration.

Elizabeth called her first Parliament on 25 January 1559, not long after her coronation. The Commons and Lords considered the nature of the religious settlement that would replace the Catholicism reintroduced in Queen Mary’s regime and other pressing matters besides; but thoughts also turned to the question of who should take the crown matrimonial and become king. It was unthinkable that the queen should not soon marry. Already, offers were being made, both at home and abroad. Voices in the Commons proved the boldest in raising the issue, and on 4 February 1559 they petitioned for an audience with the queen.
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It was granted two days later.

Now, as a hush fell over the room, Sir Thomas Gargrave, Speaker of the Commons, stepped forward.
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He was nearly forty years older than his monarch, a blunt Yorkshireman with thin lips and a serious face which tapered almost to a point at his chin.
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With considerable Parliamentary experience behind him, it must have seemed a simple matter to come before this inexperienced young woman.
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But her dark, intelligent eyes scrutinized him keenly from the dais. As he began to read his prepared speech, his monarch’s gaze ‘made him fear the unworthiness of every word which he was about to present to her ears’. He stumbled over his lines. He stuttered out a request to the queen to marry, ‘as well for her own comfort and contentment, as for assurance to the realm by her royal issue’.

There was silence as the queen considered his words. Then, with a ‘princely countenance of voice’ and a sudden, quick gesture of her hand, as though she was surprised, she answered. She gave them ‘great thanks,’ she said, ‘for the love and care which they did express, as well towards her person as the whole state of the realm’. She liked the petition and took it in good part, as she assured the Commons, who must have breathed a communal sigh of relief. ‘If it had been otherwise,’ she continued, ‘if you had taken upon you to confine, or rather to bind, my choice; to draw my love to your liking; to frame my affection according to your fantasies; I must have disliked it very much’. It was for them to obey her, not her to obey them.

Elizabeth then turned her attention to the matter of their suit. Ever since she had reached her ‘years of understanding’, being (as she said) ‘first able to take consideration of myself’, she had made a decision. Matrimony was not for her. She had, she said, ‘made choice of a single life, which hath best, I assure you, contented me, and, I trust, hath been most acceptable to God’. She meant, she assured them, to ‘preserve in a virgin’s state’.

Elizabeth’s words probably seemed fanciful to those assembled. Nobody believed that a queen could hope to reign alone.
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It was, those who were present must have reasoned, inconceivable that she would not marry and provide England with an heir. Indeed, the queen was already showing her interest in men, for was not her handsome Master of Horse, Robert Dudley, often by her side at court?

As she made her answer, Elizabeth told the Commons that ‘as for me, it shall be sufficient that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having lived and reigned so many years, died a virgin’. She claimed that, since her youth, she had ‘always continued in this determination’, but there were those standing by, including her chief gentlewoman of the bedchamber Kate Ashley, who might have disagreed.
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Once, her virginity had not been so jealously guarded. Ten years ago to the day, as a fifteen-year-old, she had been closely questioned on her attempts to take a husband of her own choosing, who was already known to have visited her bed. When she was a teenager, there was one man who had caught her fancy enough to tempt her to abandon herself to him.

The Virgin Queen was born out of the ashes of his fall.
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PART ONE
The Seeds of Scandal

Sir Thomas Seymour, second in command of Henry VIII’s invasion force in France, surveyed his troops. He was not a man of half measures. He entered into everything with gusto and determination, but no

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