Book description
As a new edition to The Royal Diaries series, this factual tale offers young readers an insight to the life and times of this famous royal prior to her days on the throne as the Queen of England.
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Elizabethās journey explores her early teen years with her tumultuous family, touching on her motherās faint but tainted memory and her ailing fatherās neglect, framed within the royal trappings.
This is a great book to share if you love British history and culture, and it gives a very interesting though somewhat tamed perspective of growing up in England during the reign of Henry VIII, all while placing the universal experiences of wanting to fit in, finding yourself the family outcast, and discovering the pains of politics.
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