title: Young Bess (novel)
text: # Young Bess (novel)
  
  Young Bess is a 1944 historical novel by the British writer Margaret Irwin. It was the first of trilogy focusing on the life of Elizabeth I of England. It focuses on her years as a princess during the reign of her father Henry VIII. It was followed by two sequels, Elizabeth, Captive Princess (1948) and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain (1953).
  
  ## Adaptation
  
  In 1953 it was adapted into a Hollywood film of the same title directed by George Sidney and starring Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr and Charles Laughton.
  
  