The Succession

Description for THE SUCCESSION: A NOVEL OF ELIZABETH AND JAMES by George Garrett:

The essence of the Elizabethan Age comes vividly alive in The Succession, in which the tortuous relationship between Elizabeth I of England and James VI of Scotland runs its course. Elizabeth is dying and must appoint a successor. Using extant letters and documents, George Garrett evokes the passionate and dissembling temperament of the queen and the duplicitous machinations of her secretary, Robert Cecil. This brilliant historical novel provides a panoramic vision of the age as it looks back in time to the aura of Henry VIII and ahead to the accession of Charles I.

This is #2 in Elizabethan Trilogy.