Just a Girl

I do not remember when I discovered how my mother died, it seems to be something I always knew, a horror I absorbed through my skin.

Determined, passionate, privileged and headstrong, Elizabeth was born into a world where she felt she didn't belong and had to fight to survive.

Her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed by her father Henry VIII. From that moment on, Elizabeth competed with her two half-siblings for love and for Britain's throne. In the gilded corridors of the royal palace, enemies she couldn't see – as well as those bound to her by blood – plotted to destroy her.

How do you find the courage to become queen even though you are just a girl?

About the Author

Jane Caro wears many hats; including author, lecturer,mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator, speaker,broadcaster and award winning advertising writer. The common thread runningthrough her career is a delight in words and a talent for using them to connectwith other people.

Today, Jane runs her own communications consultancyand lectures in Advertising Creative at The School of Communication Arts atUWS. She has published two books; The Stupid Country: How Australia isdismantling public education co-authored with Chris Bonnor (New South2007), and The F Word. How we learned to swear by feminism co-authoredwith Catherine Fox (New South, 2008. She is sought after as a speaker, MC andworkshop facilitator by a wide range of organisations, in both the public andprivate sectors. She has also appeared on Channel 7’s Sunrise, ABC’s Q&A,Richard Glover’s Political Forum onRadio 702, Radio National’s Life Matters(as host), Mornings with Kerri-Anne and The Gruen Transfer.