Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
Elizabeth was the only surviving daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed when Elizabeth was two years old....
...Pope Pius V issued a bull in 1570, titled Regnans in Excelsis, which declared "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime" to be excommunicated and a heretic, releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her.
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580. This was the first English circumnavigation, and third circumnavigation overall.
He also participated in the early English slaving voyages of his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, and John Lovell.
Having started as a simple seaman, in 1588 he was part of the fight against the Spanish Armada as a vice-admiral.
Golden Hind was a galleon captained by Francis Drake in his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580.
Queen Elizabeth I partly sponsored Sir Francis Drake as the leader of an expedition intended to pass around South America through the Strait of Magellan and to explore the coast that lay beyond. The queen's support was advantageous; Drake had official approval to benefit himself and the queen, as well as to cause the maximum damage to the Spaniards.
(c. 1530 – c. 1603) Upon her father's death, she took over active leadership of the lordship by land and sea, despite having a brother.
When her sons and her half-brother were taken captive by the English governor of Connacht, O'Malley sailed to England to petition for their release. She formally presented her request to Queen Elizabeth I at her court in Greenwich Palace.
O'Malley held the title Lord of Ireland. In popular culture, she is often referred to as "The Pirate Queen".
Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan; c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he raided settlements and shipping on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as he did so.
In 1671, Morgan attacked Panama City, landing on the Caribbean coast and traversing the isthmus before he attacked the city, which was on the Pacific coast.
To appease the Spanish, with whom the English had signed a peace treaty, Morgan was arrested and summoned to London, but was treated as a hero by the general populace, figures of government and Charles II.
Morgan was appointed a Knight Bachelor.
_Historical Romantic Fiction
the Glorious Revolution, an English civil war of 1688 between Protestants and Catholics with international players interested from France, Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands, while the Dutch send a Channel full of sails and swords.
brown-skinned British courtier Rebecca DeLann DuMaurier
men pirates / women pirates / piracy
A brown-skinned girl of African English descent and common birth amongst the landed middle class has been raised to the nobility ranks of Britain by personality, good heart, and wit. And the love of a young noble and their King.
Now a titled noblewoman with the highest connections and wealth, Becca is more than a petulant runaway bride, because the powerful men and women interwoven through her life are changing Great Britain into a modern power.
Plus, who’s to say a Lady cannot be dangerous?
A well-loved general and high peer of Britain, who has lost his only heir and has watched Becca grow to maturity, without realizing his true feelings for her.
He is awake now to his feelings about his friend Marcus' wife; and Lord Jon has waited long enough and has the reach and the will to have her captured and returned to his side and bed no matter how far she runs, whether on land or sea.
A notorious Irish Catholic pirate with conflicting reports about his skin's color and even his gender. Gentleman pirate Aidan O'Rourke is in personal revolt and revenge against all that is Great Britain has taken from him.
But, an unexpected British gift comes to him in the shape of lively, irresistible Becca.
But, can he claim and keep hold of her?
A young nobleman and only male heir to his family's highest title, fortune, and hopes. In a family doomed with short-lived males, his stubborn choice for love is a brown-skinned, vivacious commoner, Becca.
As a child, Lord Marcus will introduce little Mistress Becca as his future bride to their king, Charles II; changing the lives and fortunes of many.
The legendary "Merry Monarch" of Britain's Restoration of the King to the Throne is best known for his numerous mistresses and royal bastards than for ushering all English-speaking people into modern concerns and failures, like: news tabloids, shopping malls, women actresses, industrialized African slavery, and more.
Oh, and present Brit Royals are his bastards' descendants. How's that for relevance.
by Miriam Bennett
BECCA DuMAURIER is the expanded and much extended full novel built from:
BECCA, a swashbuckling pirate story, as short story chapters* formerly online at Romantic4ever.com* [now offline / defunct]!* Chapter 1: Becca in the Woods
* Chapter 2: Becca Escapes to Sea
* Chapter 3: Becca Gets Her Sea Legs
* Chapter 4: Becca's Faux Honeymoon
* Chapter 5: Becca Comes Ashore
* Chapter 6: Becca Outlaw's Sea Battle
* more "Becca DuMaurier" and Becca.Neale-Sourna.com
FILM SHORT: Becca Gets Her Sea Legs
(extended book trailer / film short for novel BECCA DuMAURIER)
An extended book trailer / film short of two chapters of the following novel. Film was done as a film class thesis project. Submitted to Cleveland Film Festival.
"BECCA GETS HER SEA LEGS" [13:55"] from the expanded original short stories of Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of:
BECCA, a swashbuckling pirate story* formerly online at Romantic4ever.com* [now offline / defunct]!
* Chapter 2: Becca Escapes to Sea
* Chapter 3: Becca Gets Her Sea Legs
* more "Becca DuMaurier" and Becca.Neale-Sourna.com
Here for your additional enjoyment. Do read the novel when it publishes.
But, for now, Becca's runs from her nobleman soldier fiancé to her dangerous pirate she hardly knows, who takes her away, and....
Cuyahoga Community College Media Arts and filmmaking marketing photo taken on stage during student film shoot of "Becca Gets Her Sea Legs" by Neale Sourna
"We were encamped within in sight of our lord’s favored family temple.
"His entire core retinue was in attendance, to be of service to his every noble whim.
"He is a good lord, a great lord, who is extremely clever and most brave, and exceedingly handsome..."
Read stories (2 chapters)
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