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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the first major biography for a generation of a truly formidable king, a man born to rule England, who believed that it was his right to rule all of Britain. As a consequence, his reign was one of the most dramatic and important of the entire Middle Ages, leading to war and conquest on an unprecedented scale.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious book that takes history seriously, a British actor and comedian introduces England's earliest kings and queens, who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits, revealing a story of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, uncivil wars and more.
Author
Language
English
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Description
“Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this...
At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this...
5) Royal wives
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Physical Desc
247 pages, 1 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Comprehensive and insightful, THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER offers a unique perspective on a profound mystery." Faye Kellerman
Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone...
Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill the young princes, as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the bestselling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made. "I'm three and you're four," the future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her sister. The...
9) King Arthur
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
ix, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
10) Queen Anne
Author
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
xii, 483 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Mainly remembered for his six marriages and his self-appointment as the "Supreme Head of the Church of England," Henry VIII was also attractive, educated, and athletic. When Henry Tudor ascended to the English thrown at the age of 17, his reign looked promising. But by the time of his death in 1547, King Henry VIII was characterized as an extremely egotistical, harsh, and insecure king.
15) Great Harry
Author
Publisher
Summit Books
Pub. Date
[1980]
Physical Desc
428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
17) The Stuarts
Author
Publisher
Hambledon and London
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xiii, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
20) Bloody Mary
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 533 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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