Princezna Alžběta – Weirová Alison (2021)

Little Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, the most powerful of English monarchs, is a princess destined for a life in the limelight of power and glory, and people bow to her as the king's heir. All of this, however, changes abruptly when her mother, Anne Boleyn – Henry's great love – is executed for alleged infidelity. The king disinherits the girl, declares her illegitimate, and from then on she is forced to rely solely on her own wits to survive in the dark whirlpools of an era full of intrigue and religious strife between Catholicism and the newly born Protestantism. Especially after her father's death, she must skillfully navigate the treacherous currents of ruthless power struggles at the Tudor court as an orphan. She witnesses the Protestant regency of her brother, the young Edward VI, and the merciless Catholic restoration of her older sister Mary I, during whose reign she briefly finds herself imprisoned in the Tower as an icon of the Protestant party, and although she consistently distances herself from all conspiracies, death threatens her. There are moments when she fights for her very life, and outsmarting those who seek her destruction or wish to use her for their own ends is aided only by her extraordinary intelligence and exceptional education. From a contemplative, precociously mature girl, whose fate is full...