JUNE 2023
“Elizabeth I did not have the happiest childhood. Before she was three years old her father executed her mother, and she was subsequently neglected by that father and imprisoned by her half-sister. When she finally ascended the throne, how would she make sense of all this? Would she seek to honour Henry VIII, or try to rehabilitate Anne Boleyn? In our cover feature, on page 20, Tracy Borman considers how the queen navigated this dilemma.