The Queen's Bastard: A Novel of Elizabeth I and Arthur Dudley

Now available in a new edition, the second book in Robin Maxwell's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet: "Powerfully lascivious intersections of sexual and international politics [combine] with Maxwell's electrifying prose . . . [to] make for enthralling historical fiction" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Historians have long whispered that “the Virgin Queen” Elizabeth’s passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley. In thi...