Philippa到底是历史系毕业的，文笔也不错，念书的时候看的是Elizabeth I的历史传记，印象中就留了个满冷血的强势女人，为了王位的巩固，周旋于几个男人之间，终身未嫁，也怀疑着Robert对她的情意几分真假。这几天翻阅着小说版的她俩的故事《the virgin's lover》，似乎真爱还是存在的，历史也慢讽刺的，是她把玛丽送上了断头台，临终遗嘱却指定了玛丽的儿子为继承人。
In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will pull her husband back to the very center of the glamorous Tudor court, where he was born to be. Amy had hoped that the merciless ambitions of the Dudley family had died on Tower Green when Robert's father was beheaded and his sons shamed; but the peal of bells she hears is his summons once more to power, intrigue, and a passionate love affair with the young queen. Can Amy's steadfast faith in him, her constant love, and the home she wants to make for them in the heart of the English countryside compete with the allure of the new queen? Elizabeth's excited triumph is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country, riven by enmity, where treason is normal and foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the irresistible, ambitious Robert Dudley.
Robert revels in the opportunities of the new reign. The son of an aristocratic family brought up in palaces as the equal of his royal playmates, Robert knows he can reclaim his destiny at Elizabeth's side. Elizabeth cannot resist his courtship, and as the young couple slowly falls in love, Robert starts to think the impossible: can he set aside his wife and marry the young queen?
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Ps: 工作小计 ， 今日又有人用超常规的思维来要求做一件事情，是我自己不够创造性，所以不能~~~，索性后来我还是圆满的结束了。套用前老板的原话，be positive to accept the chanllege and be creative ，是否因为未能如此，所以我没能享受工作享受生活？