Start your evening by dropping in to view West Country to World’s End between 5.30 and 6.30pm followed by author Alison Weir’s keynote lecture at 7.30 pm at the Thistle Rougemont Hotel where she will discuss the events and circumstances that shaped a great queen. Elizabeth I`s genius and statesmanship were, in no small measure, the product of her turbulent childhood and youth. Elizabeth was meant to be the son that Henry VIII urgently needed. Declared a bastard at only two years of age, after her mother, Anne Boleyn, had been beheaded, and disinherited, she was to face loss, scandal,...
