Love games

     A nice tonypandy love story for the soul. This one is an especially dramatic story of forbidden love considering it's from the point of view of the secret lover herself rather than the queen. In My Enemy the Queen, the full story behind the confusing relations between Queen Elizabeth and her lovers is revealed. We find out that the queen held on to her beloved Robert for so long with no intentions of actually marrying him because she liked the idea of having a powerful man as her servant. She was too arrogant to devote herself and her love to even a guy she actually cared about, or may she realized that he didn't exactly care for her as much and also used her for her power.
     We also find out that she toyed with the little Duc de'Anjou even though it was as obvious as can be that she had no intentions of marrying him because she girlishly craved the attention of

hopeless suitors, and she had this deep seeded obsession with the idea of weddings and marriage itself without the commitment thus reminding me of a somewhat bridezilla type. One would think at first that she played around with the Duc to maintain peace between England and France which was also very important to her, but she risked destroying this delicate relationship during her games with the boy.

     In this novel, the queen herself is betrayed mainly as a somewhat childish, giddy little girl who is boy obsessed. The twist is that she is queen and she uses these powers to have her fun little way with these boys even more all the while with the intention of up keeping her independent, powerful queen status by not actually marrying and committing to any of them. When she finds out of Lettice's marriage to Robert, she feels her powerful grip slip. She acts out with immature rage. This makes me wonder if the seemingly eloquent, composed and dutiful queen really did act this way when it came to matters with the boys.