In the first ever biography of Bess Ralegh--wife to the charismatic explorer Sir Walter Ralegh--Beer brings Bess out of her husband's shadow to stand as a central figure in the court of Elizabeth I.
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In the first ever biography of Bess Ralegh--wife to the charismatic explorer Sir Walter Ralegh--Beer brings Bess out of her husband's shadow to stand as a central figure in the court of Elizabeth I.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Young, beautiful, and connected by blood to the most powerful families in England, Bess Throckmorton had as much influence over Queen Elizabeth I as any woman in the realm, but she risked everything to marry the most charismatic man of the day. The secret marriage between Bess and the Queen's beloved Sir Walter Raleigh cost both of them their fortunes, their freedom, and very nearly their lives. Yet it was Bess, resilient, passionate, and politically shrewd, who would live to restore their name and reclaim her political influence. In this dazzling biography, Bess Raleigh finally emerges from her husbands shadow to stand as a complex, commanding figure in her own right. Writing with grace and drama, Anna Beer brings Bess to life as a woman, a wife and mother, an intimate friend of poets and courtiers, and a skilled political infighter in Europes most powerful and most dangerous court. The only daughter of an ambitious aristocratic family, Bess was thrust at a tender age into the very epicenter of royal power when her parents secured her the position of Elizabeths Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. Bess proved to be a natural player on this stage of extravagant mythmaking and covert sexual politics, until she fell in love with the Queens Captain of the Guard, the handsome, virile, meteorically rising Raleigh. But their secret marriage, swiftly followed by the birth of their son, would have grave consequences for both of them.
