After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James. Leanda Lisle de

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      ‘If you can look into the seeds of time,And say which grain will grow and which will not’,

      William Shakespeare, Macbeth

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPH

GENEALOGY

MAP

PART ONE

CHAPTER 1 ‘The world waxed old’ The twilight of the Tudor dynasty

CHAPTER 2 ‘A babe crowned in his cradle’ The shaping of the King of Scots

       PART TWO

       CHAPTER 3 ‘Westward … descended a hideous tempest’ The death of Elizabeth, February–March 1603

       CHAPTER 4 ‘Lots were cast upon our land’ The coming of Arthur, March–April 1603

       CHAPTER 5 ‘Hope and fear’ Winners and losers, April–May 1603

       CHAPTER 6 ‘The beggars have come to town’ Plague and plot in London, May–June 1603

       PART THREE

       CHAPTER 7 ‘An anointed King’ James and Anna are crowned, July–August 1603

       CHAPTER 8 ‘The God of truth and time’ Trial, judgement and the dawn of the Stuart age

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       P.S. IDEAS, INTERVIEWS & FEATURES …

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       Q AND A WITH LEANDA DE LISLE

       LIFE AT A GLANCE

       TOP FIVE, BOTTOM FIVE

       A WRITING LIFE

       ABOUT THE BOOK

       A LETTER TO THE READER BY LEANDA DE LISLE

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       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       NOTES

       PRAISE

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       GENEALOGY

      The Descendants of Henry VII

      The Royal Houses of Portugal and Spain

      The House of Talbot

      The House of Cavendish

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