"I'll be Queen as does belong to me, not sitting on a throne that rocks with civil strife."
That was the young Elizabeth, Henry VIII’s daughter — and Anne Boleyn’s — Elizabeth, the hope of England … quick-witted, quick-moving, her spirit...
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890
Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, wants to be known as a doctor, not a necromancer. But Tsar Alexander III forbids women to attend medical school; his interest in Katerina extends only to her ...