beware princess elizabeth by carolyn meyer

My father, dead! I knew that he had been ill, yet the news still came as a terrible shock. The date was the thirty-first of January, anno Domini 1547. In this way I learned of my father’s death.

Those four words, cold as marble and sharp as flint, were uttered by the thin, cruel lips of Edward Seymour, the king’s privy councillor and my brother’s uncle. But I promise you, history will remember me, Elizabeth, not for who my father was, or my mother or my sister, but for myself. Mary, who hindered me at every turn, will soon be forgotten. Now I am ready to follow in the footsteps of my father, England’s greatest king. My path to the throne has been long and fraught with peril. Yet, in spite of all, it seemed for a time that Mary was truly fond of me-before she turned bitter, before she recognized that we were enemies. How she must have loathed that! But then, before I reached my third birthday, my mother was dead, her execution ordered by my own father-and Mary’s. When I was born Mary was forced to be my servant-not an easy thing for a proud young woman of seventeen. She never forgave me for who my mother was: Anne Boleyn, who took the place of Mary’s mother as queen. Worse: I am the daughter of the woman Mary hated most in the world. Our father at times adored us but often shunned us and occasionally nearly forgot us. It had to, given who we were: the daughters of Henry VIII.

There may have been a time that Mary loved me. THERE WAS A TIME, long ago, that I loved my sister.

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England 17 November 1558 New York Times-bestselling author Carolyn Meyer has written an intriguing historical tale that reveals the deep-seated rivalry between a determined girl who became Elizabeth I, one of England's most powerful monarchs-and the sister who tried everything to stop her. Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this novel in the exciting Young Royals series explores the relationship between two sisters who became mortal enemies. And her only love interest betrays her in his own quest for the throne… Her jealous half sister, Mary, has her locked away in the Tower of London. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry VIII. What more must a princess endure?Įlizabeth Tudor’s teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. A “ gripping historical drama” that tells the story of young Elizabeth Tudor’s journey to the throne-and her fierce rivalry with her half sister ( School Library Journal).

Beware princess elizabeth by carolyn meyer