The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I

'Hibbert's Virgin Queen is devious, neurotic, capricious and brilliant ... he has created an idiosyncratic and compelling spectacle' - Lucy Hughes-Hallett in the Independent on Sunday'Concentrates, in generally masterly fashion, on this extraordinary woman. Like all his books this reads beautifully, and his judgements seem apt ... She was perhaps the most remarkable, and the most remarkably successful, of all those who occupied the English or British throne ... Mr Hibbert has done her justice, brought her supremely well to life, in this delightful and enthralling biography' - Allan Massie in the Observer'The character sketches of the royal relations and courtiers are excellent ... Similarly, the details of the text are often brilliantly illuminating ... He is indeed the absolute master of the carefully researched, thoroughly readable piece of work' - Antonia Fraser in the Daily Telegraph'Hibbert's well-rounded and well-written study po