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