The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir

I have a keen interest in history and when I was in London last May I found some very interesting books. I did read a book about Henry III by Alison Weir, and now I have read the Lady Elizabeth by the same author. The book was a thriller/romace novel with some true things in it, but also some things that are not that true or can not be confirmed. The book follows Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Henry III, untill she becomes Queen. There is a book about that period aswell, but I still have to read it. This book was great to read and hard to put away. It was well written and full of intrigues and suspence. But there is also time for romance and fun in the novel. It shows us how the people lived in that time. It was a very hard time if you ask me. Especially women had a hard time as I see it. All they were good for is to marry and to bring offspring to the world. A lot of women died in childbirth or had dead born babies. I am glad that women these days show it can be the other way around too. I am very happy not to have lived in that time, there was also a lot of sickness around and lots of people suffered from the plague. Alison Weir is a great writer. Usually books about history can be quite dull, in my experience that is, but this and the Henry VIII book were not boring at all. They were great to read and give people a great insight on England as it was at the time.