The Marriage Game
| Renaissance |
|---|
 The Marriage Game
|
World History > Renaissance > Tudors
Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings Elizabeth I to vivid life in a novel of intrigue, sex, plots, mysteries and tragedies, amid all the colour and pageantry of the Tudor court.
"[Weir] gets right inside the head of the Virgin Queen. The reader has a blissful sense of seeing history as it happens." - Kate Saunders, The Times
It was an affair that shocked the world.
Elizabeth I is the most sought-after bride in Europe. But though she is formidably intelligent, brave and tempestuous, she is desperately insecure. The tragic events in her past mean she cannot give herself to any man, and yet she relishes the thrill of the chase, the lure of forbidden fruit.
And so, using sex and high-powered diplomacy, she plays what becomes known as the 'Marriage Game', dangling suitors to keep them friendly to her kingdom, while holding them off indefinitely.
But playing this tantalizing game with the married Robert Dudley, the son and grandson of traitors, could cost her the throne…
Other Similar Books
Other suggestions on the subject of the Tudors.
- The Red Queen (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- The Wars of the Roses (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (by: Weir, Allison, A)
- Wars of the Roses: Ravenspur (by: Iggulden, Conn, A)
- The Princes in the Tower (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Tudor Tutor (by: Alexander, Barb, YA, A)
- The White Princess (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- The Tudors: Kings, Queens, Scribes, and Ferrets! (by: Williams, Marcia, LE, MG)
- The Constant Princess (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- Autobiography of Henry VIII (by: George, Margaret, A)
- The King's Curse (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- You Wouldn't Want to Be Ill in Tudor Times (by: Senior, Kathryn, LE, MG)
- Three Sisters, Three Queens (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- You Wouldn't Want to Be Married to Henry VIII (by: Senior, Kathryn, LE, MG)
- Doomed Queen Anne (by: Meyer, Carolyn, UMG, YA)
- Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All (by: Anderson, M. T., Fleming, Candace, Hemphill, Stephanie, Sandell, Lisa Ann, Donnelly, Jennifer, Park, Linda Sue, Hopkinson, Deborah, YA, A)
- Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Henry VIII: Royal Beheader (by: Price, Sean Stewart, YA, UMG)
- Henry VIII: The King and His Court (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Mary, Bloody Mary (by: Meyer, Carolyn, UMG, YA)
- Mary Tudor: Courageous Queen or Bloody Mary? (by: Buchanan, Jane, YA, UMG)
- Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Other Boleyn Girl (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Katheryn Howard, The Scandalous Queen (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Boleyn King (by: Andersen, Laura, A)
- The Lady Elizabeth (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Elizabeth I: The Novel (by: George, Margaret, A)
- The Crown: A Novel (by: Bilyeau, Nancy, A)
- Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey (by: Rinaldi, Ann, UMG, YA)
- The Children of Henry VIII (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Chalice: A Novel (by: Bilyeau, Nancy, A)
- The Boleyn Inheritance (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- The Tapestry: A Novel (by: Bilyeau, Nancy, A)
- Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (by: George, Margaret, A)
- Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- Queen's Own Fool (by: Yolen, Jane, Harris, Robert J., UMG, YA)
- Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Taming of the Queen (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- The Queen's Fool (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- The Last Tudor (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- A Dangerous Inheritance: A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- My Lady Jane (by: Hand, Cynthia, Ashton, Brodi, Meadows, Jodi, YA, A)
- The Boleyn Deceit (by: Andersen, Laura, A)
- The Boleyn Reckoning (by: Andersen, Laura, A)
- The Virgin's Lover (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- The Perilous Gard (by: Pope, Elizabeth Marie, UMG, YA)
- The Marriage Game (by: Weir, Alison, A)
- The Other Queen (by: Gregory, Philippa, A)
- My Contrary Mary (by: Hand, Cynthia, Ashton, Brodi, Meadows, Jodi, YA, A)
- A Tip for the Hangman (by: Epstein, Allison, A)