"Shadowed Steps"Finally ready. Her jewel-encrusted red velvet dress which had taken hours to put on pressing heavily against her, the corset crushing her torso. Almost unbearable to stand in, let alone walk; yet walk she must, following the steps of so many before her from the Hall in which she now stood to the Abbey where she would meet her fate. Those steps would lead her to the culmination of all her ambition, all the events in her life leading to the moment where she would kneel and have the crown of England placed on her head and become Queen Elizabeth I. How grandiose a title; and it still troubled her. How was she, a young woman of 25, to please her p"Shadowed Steps"
