Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, struggles to reconcile her desire for her father's affection with the fact that he had her mother beheaded.
When his wife and newborn daughter are abducted and held captive by the ruler of the elves and fairies, a young Will Shakespeare must venture into a magical and mysterious realm, where an alluring elf named Quicksilver comes to his aid..
Sir Robert Carey, Deputy Warden of the English West March in sixteenth-century Scotland, finds himself on the brink of treason when his search for the thieves who raided his supply of high-quality weapons leads him into the raucous court of King James VI.
Examines the lives of England's Henry VIII and his six wives, presenting a portrait of the world in which they lived and exploring Henry's motivations.
Chronicles the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, tracing the origins of the conflict, describing the Armada campaign and England's response to it, and exploring the impact it had on European history.