Recommended reading on Elizabeth I:
- Elizabeth, The Queen, Alison Weir
 - Elizabeth I, Anne Somerset
 - Elizabeth I, Alison Plowden
 - Elizabeth: Apprenticeship, David Starkey
 - Elizabeth I, David Loades
 - Elizabeth and Leicester, Sarah Gristwood
 - Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen, Tracy Borman
 - The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I, Stephen Alford
 - Elizabeth I, Richard Rex
 - Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603, Susan Doran
 - Elizabeth's Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen's Court, Anna Whitelock
 - Elizabeth I, Judith M. Richards
 - Elizabeth I: Collected Works, ed. Leah Marcus
 - Elizabeth I & Her People, Tarnya Cooper and Jane Eade
 - Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince, Lisa Hilton
 - Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, Estelle Paranque
 - Elizabeth I and Her Circle, Susan Doran
 

 						
 						
I have read the Weir, Somerset Plowden, and Starkey studies of my favorite English monarch, Elizabeth I. Thanks to this list, I will now investigate the other books on this list.