The developing plotline, interesting characters and a nice handle on Elizabethan court politics maintain interest. This is a well-done, well-researched and imaginative undertaking. That could be a deadly potentiality for Elinor.
All the trappings of Court and its political intrigues pale in comparison to the possibility that she is Elizabeth’s daughter. That letter begins the unraveling of Elinor’s life as she knows it. Her parents oppose her at every step.Īfter her father’s death, Elinor writes in secret to Elizabeth, who is now queen, and begs her to bring her to Court. Elinor wants to be part of life at Court. When she meets the young Princess Elizabeth during that trip, with whom she becomes enamored, her fate is sealed.
She wants to explore the world beyond her parents’ estate. Her nanny, Eppie, is the closest thing Elinor has to a mother.Īs Elinor begins to mature, she feels trapped.
Her mother, on the other hand, is harsh and punitive. She is everything her studious, intellectual father would have wanted in a daughter. She asks the difficult questions and truly wants to know the answers. Young Elinor is precocious, brilliant in fact, tutored by her father, Lord Calverley. Who is Elinor de Lacy, and why is she the protagonist of this novel? Chase takes us on a merry, and not-so-merry, journey with Elinor, purported by some to have been the daughter of a teenaged Elizabeth Tudor and Thomas Seymour.
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