![]() ![]() Waller says that the burning of Protestant Archbishop Cranmer for heresy was a “propaganda disaster” for Mary I, while image-conscious Elizabeth I promoted her own association with the Virgin Mary. Often wrongly dismissed as a fat, sickly dullard, says Waller, Anne was politically shrewd and ambitions to be queen, instigating malicious rumors that her Catholic half-brother was a changeling. Elizabeth II, portrayed as passive and unimaginative, indulged her mother while wounding her husband by keeping the Windsor name, and surrendered her prerogative to choose a midterm prime minister. In Waller's view, Mary II and Victoria colluded in their own diminishment by domineering husbands. ) highlights the triumphs and travails of England's six female monarchs: Anne, the two Marys, the two Elizabeths and Victoria. Aller ( Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown ![]()
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