I really didn't care for this book. The author did not write the story in an engaging way, and I did not feel drawn into the world of Queen Elizabeth at all. In a word, boring. Another annoying aspect of the book was the author's tendency to slip in stories out of chronology. She'll be writing about the Queen's coronation, but suddenly she'll drop in a story from 20 years later. And she does it again and again. I love to read all kinds of books, and I seldom ever put down a book without finishing it, but I found this book to be such drudgery that I quit reading it. Blech!