Reviews of ‘Elizabeth’s Bedfellows An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court’ by Anna Whitelock have started appearing.
Review: Elizabeth’s Bedfellows – The Independent – 1 June 2013
World of Secrets by Miranda Seymour
‘…Anna Whitelock’s engrossing and admirably researched book…Whitelock’s excellent life of Queen Mary was published in 2009. With this dazzling portrait of Mary’s successor, she takes her place amongst the foremost – and most enthrallingly readable – historians of the Tudors.’
The Culture (Sunday Times), 26th May 2013, p34-35
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows Review by Iain Finlayson
‘With the lively imagination of a dramatist and the rigor of an academic, Whitelock discards the chastity belt of conventional royal history and presents Elizabeth in terms of the intimate politics of her life.’
Saturday Review (The Times), 25th May 2013, p 14
The Bedroom Secrets of the Virgin Queen by Frances Wilson
‘Whitelock’s fearless approach to Elizabeth…She too, has burst into the bedroom and shown us the Queen in her most private state. This is an intimate history of the court and a brilliant history of intimacy.’
Event (The Mail on Sunday), 19th May 2013, p 42-43
