Robert, Earl of Essex Robert Lacey

Name: Robert, Earl of Essex By Robert Lacey
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Robert, Earl of Essex by Robert Lacey

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Presents a study of the man who captured Elizabeth I's heart and almost cost her, her throne. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, dominated Court and country for years as the flamboyant lover of Elizabeth I. Fabled in romantic legends, but far more interesting in real life, their relationship courted disaster in the long run.

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Robert, Earl of Essex: An Elizabethan Icarus by Robert Lacey

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, dominated Court and country for years as the flamboyant lover of Elizabeth I. Fabled in romantic legends but far more interesting in real life, their relationship courted disaster in the long run and led the great Earl of Essex to the block.

About Robert Lacey

Robert Lacey, a former magazine editor and journalist, is the author of many best-selling works of biography and history. Following his success Sir Walter Ralegh (Phoenix Press) Robert Lacey wrote Majesty. Published on the occasion of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, it is the definitive study of the British monarchy, on which subject Lacey continues to lecture around the world. Winning renown for his original and painstaking research, Robert Lacey has gone on to write authoritative and successful works on Saudi Arabia, the Ford family, the gangster 'Little Man' Meyer Lansky, Princess Grace of Monaco and Sothebys. He also wrote and presented the BBC television series Aristocrats. Most recently his fascinating description of life at the turn of the first millennium in The Year 1000 has been a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Sku

GOR003086541

ISBN 13

9781842122853

ISBN 10

1842122851

Title

Robert, Earl of Essex: An Elizabethan Icarus by Robert Lacey

Author

Robert Lacey

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

20011115

Number of pages

352

Prizes

N/A

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