The Galliard (78 page)

‘One of Britain’s most accomplished historical novelists. Her love and respect for the past shines through every page’ Sarah Dunant, author of
In the Company of the Courtesan

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ARGARET
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RWIN
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COMPELLING
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Jealous and suspicious of her younger, healthier and more beautiful sister, Mary tries to suppress Elizabeth’s growing power. But at just twenty, the imperious, high-spirited Bess fights back and begins to show the diplomacy, the baffling mood changes and the power to win men’s devotion for which she will one day become famous as Queen. As Mary’s influence fades, the country looks to the young princess for its future.

The death of her younger brother, Edward IV; the accession of Mary; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; her own imprisonment in the Tower; and the arrival of Philip of Spain to marry Queen Mary provide the powerful background against which Elizabeth struggles to achieve her life’s goal: the Crown of England.

‘I doubt if anyone could create more perfectly than Miss Irwin the illusion of a vanished age’
Observer

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LIZABETH
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ARGARET
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TIMELESS
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Philip of Spain, unwilling bridegroom of Queen Mary, has been warned about the Queen’s half-sister, the young Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn. According to all reports, she is a heretic, a rebel and a potential enemy with ‘a spirit full of enchantment’. But Philip is not deterred, and Elizabeth must advance warily towards her destiny, running the gauntlet between Bloody Mary’s jealousy and morbid outbursts of hate, and Philip’s uneasy ardour…

‘Margaret Irwin’s books have an unsurpassed colour and gusto’
The Times

Copyright

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First published in Great Britain in 1941.
This ebook edition published by Allison & Busby in 2013.

Copyright © 1941 by THE ESTATE OF
MARGARET IRWIN

The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent buyer.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978–0–7490–1353–0