Kipling's English history Book

Delightful. The illustrations are wonderfully funny--Boudicca parking her chariot outside the houses of Parliament and arguing with a meter maid, the first coin issued by the Bank of England having the motto "HA HA LOADSAMONEY 1694."

About Elizabeth I:

Elizabeth could not forget
The fate her mother Anne had met
Through misplaced trust: right from the start,
She kept her inmost thoughts apart.
Her steadily improving skill
In hiding all her hand, until
She saw what suits her rivals held,
Was virtually unparalleled.
One special card she kept well back:
Herself, the strongest in the pack.
While monarchs thought they had the chance,
She'd be the one who made them dance.