England’s Next Top Prince Consort turns Elizabethan politics into a chaotic reality competition as Queen Elizabeth I momentarily abandons statecraft to evaluate a lineup of suitors—Philip II of Spain, the Duke of Anjou, Charles II of Austria, and the ever-intrusive Robert Dudley—under the dubious guidance of judges Walsingham, Cecil, Dudley, and a confused Shakespeare. Confessionals function as court intrigue, alliances form and implode, and a cryptic lady-in-waiting named Balthazar quietly... see more