The release date for the English version of 'The Virgin's Lover' by
Philippa Gregory is Sep 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This remarkable account of the first dangerous years of Elizabeth I's reign comes from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool.
Elizabeth, the newly crowned queen, is in grave peril from two sources: the French invasion of Scotland, which might usurp Mary Queen of Scots' throne, and her intense romantic feelings for the traitor Robert Dudley.
However, Dudley is already wed, and his loyal wife Amy won't part with him—especially not to a new Protestant princess. Her devoted spouse becomes the favorite and the center of the frenziedly plotted, pleasure-seeking court despite her refusal to let him marry the queen.
However, their objections to the marriage are totally different from mine. The queen's most astute advisor, William Cecil, understands that she must wed for legal reasons since her uncle despises Dudley and vows to kill him first. The Protestants, priests, assassins, diplomats, and moneymakers are the groups that take up their positions behind the triangle of loves. England's own currency is chopped and trimmed to nothing as Elizabeth clumsily steers her broke nation into a war that nobody believes she can win.
After then, something is done covertly, and things won't go as planned for Elizabeth, Dudley, and the newly formed kingdom.
Philippa Gregory has crafted a dark and suspenseful tale set in Tudor times that presents Elizabeth I in a way that has never been proposed before by fusing historical truth with modern gossip. This woman is a fierce, scared, and emotionally dependent queen who won't give up.