Young Elizabeth

Elizabeth is looked upon with great favour by Katherine Parr, and for a while the young Princess lives with her widowed step-mother in Chelsea. But Elizabeth has inherited from her father the Tudor qualities of evergy and strength, of a fiery temper and in spite of a certain brutality and courseness, a remarkable capacity for inspiring devoted affection. Nobody can be indifferent to Elizabeth; and now so much devotion threatens to spring up between her and her step-mother's newly wedded husband Thomas Seymour, brother of the lord Proctor, that it is soon considered expedient she should retire to Hatfield House. Before long Katherine dies in childbirth. And soon after Thomas, analtogether rash young man, finds out how perilous it is to befriend Elizabeth, and loses his head. The rivalry between the Seymours and Dudleys for control of the King's person and the succession to the throne leads to many attempts to implicate Elizabeth in public plots and private scandals in the hope of provoking cause for her removal...