![]() ![]() "All else is a dispute over trifles." Heretic Queen is the highly personal, untold story of how Queen Elizabeth I secured the future of England as a world power. ![]() "There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith," Elizabeth once proclaimed. ![]() Yet at the outset, in religious matters, she was unfathomably tolerant for her day. Extravagant, witty, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the ultimate tyrant. Given the scars of the Reformation, Elizabeth would need all of the powers of diplomacy and tact she could summon. Only twenty-five years old, the young queen saw herself as their Protestant savior, aiming to provide the nation with new hope, prosperity, and independence from the foreign influence that had plagued her sister Mary's reign. Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald delivers a stunning account of Elizabeth I that focuses on her role in the Wars on Religion- the battle between Protestantism and Catholicisim that tore apart Europe in the 16th Century Elizabeth's 1558 coronation procession was met with an extravagant outpouring of love. ![]()
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