An excellent review for the paperback of Anna Whitelock’s ‘Elizabeth’s Bedfellows’ in the Sunday Times Culture.
‘Nobody knew Elizabeth I better than the women who form the subject of Whitelock’s engrossing and admirably researched study: the women who slept in the queen’s bed, ministered to her needs and experienced her fits of rage. Whitelock’s book brings out the loyalty that Elizabeth inspired and the unpredictable ways in which she chose to reward it. Taking us behind the closed doors of Elizabeth’s bedchamber, she builds up a remarkably intimate portrait. With his dazzling portrait, Whitelock takes her place among the foremost, and most enthrallingly readable, historians of the Tudors.’
Miranda Seymour
p.40, The Culture, Sunday Times (11 May 2014)
