Virgin Queen is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. Focusing on her interior life, it traverses her tragic love affairs and her fraught relationship with Mary, Queen of Scots, the cousin she never met. These pages illustrate her moments of defeat, her defiance, her strategies, her secrets, and her deathbed scene. "Catherine Corman gives us an admirable companion in prose poems and photographs to one of England's greatest monarchs." -Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of The University of Oxford