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In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw her husband back to the center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country where treason is rampant and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As the young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really set aside his wife and marry the queen? When Amy is found dead, Elizabeth and Dudley are suddenly plunged into a struggle for survival.

Sir Robert Cecil, an advisor to King James I in 1603, confides in his gardener John Tradescant about the political and social changes that he has to face in the King's court.

Examines some of the theories regarding the authorship of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare.

Summarizes and analyzes the arguments regarding the Shakespeare authorship controversy.

Tells the true story of William Marshall, a twelfth-century knight who distinguished himself on the field of battle, in jousting tournaments, as loyal protector of England's Prince Henry, and as a traveler to the Holy Land; and includes facts about the lives and activities of knights.

As the child of two musicians, twelve-year-old James has no interest in music until he discovers a portal to seventeenth-century London in his uncle's basement, and finds himself in a situation where his beautiful voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.

An illustrated chronicle of the life of William Marshal, the medieval English knight who fought courageously in battle, guarded Eleanor of Aquitaine for fifteen years, and spent the end of his life as King Regent to Henry III.