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Title: One Word: AWFUL
Review: This book is by far the worst of Henley's. Don't get me wrong, I love a good common-girl-rises-up-and-takes-the-nobility-by-the-... story, but this one fails. It only illustrates how mercenary (and apparently, rather promiscuous) Bess was. And Henley conveniently omits the later years of Bess' life, when she became the ... of England. It's common knowlegde that when she could not keep George Talbot from straying, she ruined innocent people's lives. Granted, Mary Queen of Scots was no nun, but Bess took advantage of her vunerability and ruined her further. This woman does not deserve to be remembered in the romantic way Henley portrayers her. She gives all women who have and do aspire to be more than they are a bad name.
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