Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

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By the time they landed on Gold Beach on D-Day, they were toughened by experience and ready for combat. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vulnerable to enemy attack from all sides. Though different in myriad ways, their fates and lives remained intertwined of the course of three decades, even as the European geo-politics repeatedly set them against one another. She did not stop Drake and his privateers from attacking and plundering, not only Spanish, but also French’s ships.

Using many different sources, Estelle has brought Queens Elizabeth I of England and Catherine de Medici of France to life and done them more than justice. She has participated in international historical TV documentaries including BBC Two's The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (2021) and Channel 4's The Queens Who Changed the World (2023). She deals with wars, on global and personal scales, as well as how families (or would-be families) interact when they operate on an international stage. Dr Panaque, wrote and explained about the death's of Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine de Medici in detail but only wrote a 1 liner on the death of Elizabeth I?Paranque among them, are ready to grant themselves the novelist's freedom--though not with facts, thank goodness. A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, two of the most powerful women in Renaissance Europe who shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history.

The sources of some of the speeches and letters are footnoted, but most are not, and in those cases it seems to me that the author has invented dialogue, pauses, and facial gestures like smiles; and then the book reads like a novel. Francis II died of an ear infection at the end of that year, and Mary left France for Scotland in 1561. Fortunately, the book gets good as Paranque focuses on relations of the two powerful women in 3 main issues: 1. But unfortunately Religion and Religious fanatics said No we are going to put a stop to that ridiculousness and lets create a long lasting bloody massacre (St. The author does a good job of asessing the queens in a fairly balanced way, as well as not making them rivals or good/bad, but rather women as well as rulers living in a 16th century world.

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Mary is often portrayed as a poor innocent wrongfully murdered, but Paranque shows her as a schemer constantly trying to grasp more and claiming innocence when caught. Blood, Fire and Gold is a must-read for anyone interested in not only Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, but anyone interested in studies of female power more generally! After all, Elizabeth is the first woman who’s name was named after an age- The Elizabethan Age, or the Golden Age for that matter.The argument it proposed threatened to topple the government, but sedition sold well in the coffeehouses of Fleet Street and the woman promised protection. From the fashion at the time to oral history in letters and actions from Catherine to Elizabeth, Elizabeth to Henry and Catherine and to their ambassadors.