After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James

After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James
Leanda de Lisle

Family trees are best viewed on a tablet.A brilliant history of the succession of James I of England, and the shifting power and lethal politics that brought him to the throne.In the dawn of the 17th-century when Mary Queen of Scots was dead and Elizabeth I grown old, the eyes of the English turned to Mary’s son, James VI of Scotland. Leanda de Lisle's book focuses on the intense period of raised hopes and dashed expectations between Christmas 1602 and Christmas 1603, during which Elizabeth died, James was crowned and the ancient enemies of England and Scotland were ruled by one monarch for the first time.With its focus on a narrow space of time, this immensely readable history illuminates a wider period, telling in dramatic detail how the suffocating conservatism of Elizabeth’s rule was replaced with that of the energetic James. It is a story in which fortunes were made and lives lost as courtiers vied for wealth and influence. As well as painting a superb portrait of Court life, de Lisle explores the forces that shaped James’s life, his separation from his mother and the violence of his Scottish kingdom; his marriage to the vivacious Anna of Denmark and the failed rebellions, government corruption and religious persecution which set the stage for James’s accession to the throne of England.Drawing extensively from original sources and contemporary accounts, this vivid account of the cusp of the Tudor and Stuart centuries brings to life a period of glamour and intrigue that marked the beginning of a new age.

AFTER ELIZABETH

The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James

LEANDA DE LISLE

DEDICATION (#ulink_a24b2d02-1013-51c8-9be1-55ebae040c21)

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

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_9c3ce125-5dd9-55ce-a7bc-2c499a9420f8)

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

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

CONTENTS

COVER (#u26f04a4d-9654-5542-923a-af8fa635fcb1)

TITLE PAGE (#u3a0d9d8f-cb26-5b82-a8bd-f2eb713e0816)

DEDICATION (#ulink_301cb503-b7cb-50ee-b2f4-4dd180508615)

EPIGRAPH (#uf2d9e590-d4b9-5220-a13a-017b528d2e36)

GENEALOGY (#udebb09e0-b324-516e-a06e-2602c0f960fb)

MAP (#ua7cc4cf5-8765-5110-8579-8af5058c1885)

PART ONE (#uf068b40b-825b-5430-8872-9cf1c0539074)

CHAPTER 1 ‘The world waxed old’ The twilight of the Tudor dynasty (#u0dc18158-6253-52ef-ad1b-4b31a7afc102)

CHAPTER 2 ‘A babe crowned in his cradle’ The shaping of the King of Scots (#u85ef7c92-7cd0-59c4-92a3-b87ffddad727)

PART TWO (#litres_trial_promo)

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

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

CHAPTER 5 ‘Hope and fear’ Winners and losers, April–May 1603 (#litres_trial_promo)

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

PART THREE (#litres_trial_promo)

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

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY (#litres_trial_promo)

INDEX (#litres_trial_promo)

P.S. IDEAS, INTERVIEWS & FEATURES … (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)

Q AND A WITH LEANDA DE LISLE

LIFE AT A GLANCE (#litres_trial_promo)

TOP FIVE, BOTTOM FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)

A WRITING LIFE (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE BOOK (#litres_trial_promo)

A LETTER TO THE READER BY LEANDA DE LISLE

READ ON (#litres_trial_promo)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)

AUTHOR’S NOTE (#litres_trial_promo)

NOTES (#litres_trial_promo)

PRAISE (#litres_trial_promo)

COPYRIGHT (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)

GENEALOGY (#ulink_6065b25b-345f-52b7-b618-87df02a8ecea)

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