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Автор: Leanda Lisle de
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      AFTER ELIZABETH

       The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James

      LEANDA DE LISLE

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      For Peter,Rupert, Christian and Dominic,my cornerstones.

       EPIGRAPH

      ‘If you can look into the seeds of time,And say which grain will grow and which will not’,

      William Shakespeare, Macbeth

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       PART TWO

       CHAPTER 3 ‘Westward … descended a hideous tempest’ The death of Elizabeth, February–March 1603

       CHAPTER 4 ‘Lots were cast upon our land’ The coming of Arthur, March–April 1603

       CHAPTER 5 ‘Hope and fear’ Winners and losers, April–May 1603

       CHAPTER 6 ‘The beggars have come to town’ Plague and plot in London, May–June 1603

       PART THREE

       CHAPTER 7 ‘An anointed King’ James and Anna are crowned, July–August 1603

       CHAPTER 8 ‘The God of truth and time’ Trial, judgement and the dawn of the Stuart age

       BIBLIOGRAPHY

       INDEX

       P.S. IDEAS, INTERVIEWS & FEATURES …

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       Q AND A WITH LEANDA DE LISLE

       LIFE AT A GLANCE

       TOP FIVE, BOTTOM FIVE

       A WRITING LIFE

       ABOUT THE BOOK

       A LETTER TO THE READER BY LEANDA DE LISLE

       READ ON

       IF YOU LOVED THIS, YOU MIGHT LIKE …

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       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       NOTES

       PRAISE

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       GENEALOGY

      The Descendants of Henry VII

      The Royal Houses of Portugal and Spain

      The House of Talbot

      The House of Cavendish

       MAP

       PART ONE

      ‘There are more that look, as it is said,to the rising than to the setting sun

      Elizabeth I

       CHAPTER ONE

       ‘The world waxed old’

       The twilight of the Tudor dynasty

      SIR JOHN HARINGTON arrived at Whitehall in December 1602 in time for the twelve-day Christmas celebrations at court.