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3.0 out of 5 stars
Fanfare BEFORE Elizabeth,
By Shannon Young (South Riding, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fanfare for Elizabeth (Hardcover)
In Fanfare for Elizabeth, Ms. Sitwell gives us a striking account of love, betrayal, and religion as it unfolds in the court of King Henry VIII. She deftly navigates through Henry's court and his notorioulsy fickle love life. We hear something of Elizabeth and her youthful hardships (exiled to a summer estate, a toothache at the age of three, a dearth of nice dresses) only as asides in this grand drama of Henry and his struggles with wives and Popes. Ms. Sitwell is an extremely talented writer, and there is no doubt that the book was well researched. Why then, was I so disappointed with it? Because the book is not about Elizabeth I, Queen of England. It's about her father. Fanfare for Elizabeth is a lovely, lightweight account of Henry's adult life. The book is charming in it's style and comes across as rather quaint (Katherine Howard's teenage indiscretions are never directly addressed, nor are Henry's adult ones). The book ends with a vignette of Elizabeth in her early teens, still oblivious of the grandeur that awaits her. Fanfare for Elizabeth is not a bad book - it's just not what you think it should be. |
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Fanfare for Elizabeth by Dame Edith Sitwell (Hardcover - Dec. 1989)
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