I, Elizabeth

'Some are born bastards, some achieve bastardy, other have bastardy thrust upon them...'This is the voice of Elizabeth I - caustic, intelligent, and witty - as she begins to tell her story.Rosalind Miles uses her acclaimed skills as a storyteller and historian to bring to life the woman behind the myth of the 'Virgin Queen'. By turns imperious, brilliant, calculating and insecure, this Queen Elizabeth is as vividly alive today as she was in her own time. Nor is she only the public Elizabeth: She reveals her most intimate thoughts and fears as she struggles to balance her needs as a woman against her duties as England's sovereign.