Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 (The Royal Diaries) | Carolyn Meyer

Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 (The Royal Diaries) | Carolyn Meyer | Isabel, Jewel of Castilla

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	Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 (The Royal Diaries) Carolyn Meyer Scholastic Inc., 2000 - 202 pages average customer review:based on 59 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.

GREAT BOOK

I LOVED this book!!!!!!!!! It was one of my favorites in the series. Isabel Jewel of Castilla, is about a Spanish girl who's father (the king) died, and her mother is mourning. Her stepbrother Enrique becomes king and is married to Queen Juana. Her other brother King Alfonso rules another part of the land. With two kings there is a lot of trouble. King Enrique wants Isabel to marry the King of Portugal (El Escorpion) but,her ladies-in-waiting, her best friend Beatriz, and all of her protectors and the supporters of King Alfonso help her to meet Prince Fernando, the one she wants to marry. This is a great book, easy to understand, and very exciting. I recommend this book for everyone, and you won't be disappointed.

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Isabel, Jewel of Castilla

This book is about a young girl named Isabel. Isabel is the future queen of Spain. She lives a well life, but it is full of sadness at times. Her brother, King Enrique, has forced her to stay at a castle in Segovia away from her widowed mother. She cannot leave without his consent. She has a very hard time trying to be faithful to both her brothers. She despises King Enrique, but tolerates him because secretly she is trying to overthrow him and put her other brother, King Alfonso, in charge of all of Spain.
I liked this book because it informed me about Spain and several of its rulers. It also informed me about some of Spain's culture.
I didn't like this book because it had many sad points. Poor Isabel looses a couple of her friends and family. She's left fatherless, friendless, and with out her brother.
I loved this books ending. It was so happy. Isabel gets her wish and she get married to someone SHE chose. That was very rare in Isabel's time period. Usually princes and princesses had arranged marriages.
I recommend this book to everyone! It is one of the best books in The Royal Diaries series!

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Love it

I totally love this book!! I've read it for 3 times and I never get bored with it. Even though I read it 3 years ago, it's still my favourite. It's the first book of The Royal Diaries that made me want to read the rest of the Royals..I should recommend this. It really brought me back to the past. In their time, where women wore fashionable gowns and men were gentlemen asking them for a dance.
I can't wait to read more of The Royal Diaries.

The diary of this brilliant spanish queen

I loved Isabele and found it interesting all the way.Isabel is brought up in a time when women must marry whoever is chosen for them, but Isabelle wants to marry her true love and have a happy life. She is also pretty scared of her brother and lets him take over her. Most bits of this diary are quite sad and i loved the way Isabele only announces her true character in the end. When I sabel loses three beloved ones she meets the prince of her dreams and wants to marry him instantly. She also wants to become the Queen of Spain and live in luxury with her husband. The diary of this lady knight who will fight for her freedom is tragic but in the end something rather pleasant occurs. Im not going to tell you! You read the book and see! I will give this book an a+ and is definitely one of the top 5 royal diaries. A pure classic

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Isabel, Jewel of Castilla

This book is very interesting, and, I must admit, kind of funny. It is about the teen-aged Isabel, princess of Castilla, and her brother Enrique's contiual attemps to 'marry her off' to men she hates. In fact, at one point in the book, when Enrique's wife askes if she wants to wear this or that dress to her wedding, she says, 'I would rather wear a buarial shroud!' The reader of this review will be pleased to know the Isabel didn't have to put on a buarial shroud in order to escape marrige. This book is easily one of the better books in the Royal Diaries series. There is a movie to go with the book, and I think that it is very good, but I haven't seen it yet.

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