Everything you need to understand or teach The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory.
In The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory, we are transported to the sixteenth century in Tudor England, at the time of Elizabeth the First. This is a time of deep uncertainty because Elizabeth's and old Queen Mary's father was Henry the Eighth, the English King who broke from the Roman Catholic Church of Rome, dreamed of a United Kingdom of Britain, and himself took many wives (muddling the line of succession...