They were also a highly useful political bargaining counter.Ģ. I think they had a profound influence, because ultimately they kept foreign princes (who might have been hostile to England) friendly in anticipation of an alliance. Just how big an influence did these proposals and resulting negotiations have upon Elizabethan politics and foreign policy?
Alison, your novel The Marriage Game, a Novel of Queen Elizabeth I focuses concerted attention upon the plethora of marriage proposals and resulting negotiations matching the Queen of England with an assortment of highly placed European royalty and nobility. Today, in celebration of the release of Alison’s new novel The Marriage Game, a Novel of Queen Elizabeth I, we come together to discuss Elizabeth, Regina - in particular, the politics of her unending marriage negotiations and her relationship with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.Īlison, there are a few surprises in store for you, as well. The first, Elizabeth of York ( Headline, 2022), published in May 2022 and the second, Henry VIII ( Headline 2023), published May 2023.Queen Anne Boleyn Historical Writers is very humbled and honored that renowned historian and fiction writer Alison Weir again joins us here on the website. In 2022, she returns with a captivating new trio of novels spanning three generations of history's most iconic family, the Tudors. Īlison has also written a spellbinding six novel series about Henry VIII's Queens: Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen ( Headline, 2017), Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession ( Headline, 2017), Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen ( Headline, 2018), Anne of Cleve: Queen of Secrets ( Headline, 2019), Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen ( Headline, 2020) and Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife ( Headline, 2021). Since then she has gone on to write many novels including The Lady Elizabeth (Hutchinson, 2009), The Lady in the Tower ( Hutchinson, 2010), The Captive Queen (Hutchinson, 2011) and The Marriage Game (Hutchinson, 2015). Her first novel, Innocent Traitor ( Hutchinson, 2007), was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. Her book Queen of the Conquest (Jonathan Cape, 2017) was a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. She has written widely on the British Monarchy and her books include Eleanor of Aquitaine ( Jonathan Cape, 2001), Isabella: She-Wolf of France ( Jonathan Cape, 2012), Richard III and the Princes in the Tower ( Jonathan Cape, 2014) and The Lost Tudor Princess ( Jonathan Cape, 2016) an extraordinary biography of the beautiful and tempestuous Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox who led a life packed with intrigue, drama and tragedy that spanned five Tudor reigns. Alison Weir is a bestselling and critically acclaimed popular historian and novelist.
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