Book Title: Nothing Proved
Series: Regina
Author: Janet Wertman
Publication Date: May 19, 2025
Publisher: Janet Wertman
Pages: 376
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Book Title and Author:
Nothing Proved
by Janet Wertman
Blurb:
Danger lined her path, but destiny led her to glory…
Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the vulnerable fourteen-year-old must learn to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, power plays, and betrayal.
After narrowly escaping entanglement in Thomas Seymour’s treason, Elizabeth rebuilds her reputation as the perfect Protestant princess – which puts her in mortal danger when her half-sister Mary becomes Queen and imposes Catholicism on a reluctant land. Elizabeth escapes execution, clawing her way from a Tower cell to exoneration. But even a semblance of favor comes with attempts to exclude her from the throne or steal her rights to it through a forced marriage.
Elizabeth must outwit her enemies time and again to prove herself worthy of power. The making of one of history’s most iconic monarchs is a gripping tale of survival, fortune, and triumph.
Guest Post for When Angels Fly:
Elizabeth Tudor’s reign ushered in England’s Golden Age – after a path to the crown that should have been impossible. My latest novel, Nothing Proved, shines a light on the process by which she came to learn the lessons that shaped her transformation from bastard to queen. Orphaned, abused, imprisoned, and betrayed, she learned suspicion, self-reliance, loyalty, and strategy – qualities she wielded for the rest of her life.
Elizabeth was born on September 7, 1533, to King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Her birth was a profound disappointment: Henry had desperately hoped for a male heir – and when Elizabeth was just two years old, he executed her mother on fabricated charges of adultery, incest, and treason, all to remarry. Elizabeth’s resulting precarious position gave her a front-row seat to the downfall of queens, courtiers, and family members, imbuing her with natural caution.
Henry’s death in 1547 thrust Elizabeth into a dangerous new reality. She found some brief stability with her stepmother, Katherine Parr – at least until Katherine’s husband made inappropriate advances and Elizabeth had to leave. To rebuild her reputation, she became the perfect Protestant princess, which put her in great danger when Catholic Mary took the throne in 1553. The Protestant resistance made Mary see Elizabeth as both a rival and a threat; and in 1554, after Wyatt’s rebellion, Elizabeth was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London where she lived under the shadow of a potential execution order. Her release did not end the danger: she was kept under house arrest for over a year, constantly watched and manipulated by a paranoid regime. Even after her release and ostensible rehabilitation, plots swirled to usurp her power by marrying her to someone who could control her.
Elizabeth’s survival in the face of danger gave her the confidence to lead, and navigating her way through these challenges taught Elizabeth the lessons she would use all her life. When Mary I died in 1558, Elizabeth ascended the throne at age 25 and surrounded herself with carefully chosen, loyal advisers. She never married, perhaps because she saw too well how power could shift through unions – or perhaps because she had seen too much of betrayal in personal relationships. And unlike her father, who ruled with impulse and fury, Elizabeth governed with patience and subtlety, navigating religious disputes, foreign threats, and internal dissent with calculated care. In all, she turned her traumatic upbringing into a source of strength, reshaping those lessons into a reign that proved a woman could not only survive but rule – and rule well.
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Author Bio:
By day, Janet Wertman is a freelance grantwriter for impactful nonprofits. By night, she writes critically acclaimed, character-driven historical fiction – indulging a passion for the Tudor era she had harbored since she was eight years old and her parents let her stay up late to watch The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R.
Her Seymour Saga trilogy (Jane the Quene, The Path to Somerset, The Boy King) took her deep into one of the era’s central families – and now her follow-up Regina series explores Elizabeth’s journey from bastard to icon.
Janet also runs a blog (www.janetwertman.com) where she posts interesting takes on the Tudors and what it’s like to write about them.
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