What are the motifs in The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir?

Loyalty vs. treason is a recurring idea. Since the monarch had God-given sovereignty, the subjects owed the monarch loyalty, not only as the leader of the church but as the leader of the state. In Elizabethan England, people were distrustful of foreigners, who often had different languages and religions and considered themselves more refined than England. Elizabeth garnered loyalty from her subjects through their love; she was a very visible monarch to the common people, like a living legend.