I mentioned this book in a “Sunday Short Takes”, but it was kind of buried so I thought I would move it to its own post and update the info now that it is available at the US Amazon.
This is the article that I linked to in the previous post – from the Times Online:
FOR more than four centuries it has been one of the great unsolved deaths of the Tudor age. Did Amy, wife of Elizabeth I
Elizabeth had people put to death for less. Why would she blink at eradicating the only threat to her happiness? Granted, it backfired on her (if she did have a hand in it) and ensured they never could be married–since popular opinon meaned so much to her…well…we all know the story. I’ve read both fictionalized and non-fictionalized accounts. I think she played a part in it–to what degree remains to be seen.
Just finished reading the book, he does not suggest that Elizabeth had anything to do with the death. He examines in great detail all four theories, accidental death, suicide, spontaneous fracture due to advanced cancer and murder. And he has uncovered two pieces of new contemporary material. One the coroner’s report and two a journal written during the years up to 1562 which sheds some new light on old thoughts. It is an excellent read