Barbara Kyle's Blog: The Rest of the Story - Posts Tagged "elizabethan"

My friend and fine actor, Brigit Wilson, tweeted this photo of herself in her dressing room at Ontario's world-renowned Stratford Festival where she plays Lady Faulconbridge in Shakespeare's "King John."

What good taste she has in books!

Here she is with my novel The Queen's Captive.

I love the juxtaposition of her Elizabethan costume with The Queen's Captive because the book begins with twenty-year-old Princess Elizabeth on her way to the Tower, arrested by her half-sister, Queen Mary. Terrified, Elizabeth was sure she was going to her execution. It was March, 1554.

Two months later, reluctantly bowing to the people's love of Elizabeth, Mary released her, but she kept her under house arrest at the moldy old "palace" of Woodstock for almost a year.

In 1558 Mary died, childless after a failed and unhappy reign, having been virtually abandoned by her husband, Philip II of Spain. Elizabeth ascended the throne at age twenty-five. She ruled for forty-three years, one of England's wiliest and most successful monarchs.



My friend Brigit is also in rehearsals for the Stratford Festival's production of "Christina, the Girl King" in which she plays Duchess Erika Brahe. If you love great theater, check out the Festival's stunning season: http://www.stratfordfestival.ca/BoxOf...



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