Publication date: 2006-03-02
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.35
Review Stately Passions: The Scandals of Britain's Great Houses / Michael O'Mara Books:
Publication date: 2008-02-12
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.00
Review Elizabeth and Leicester / Bantam Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-10
Dewey code: 942.052092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.16
Review The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy / WileyBlackwell:
Publication date: 2007-11-19
Dewey code: 941.0850922
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.81
Review Magic Moments: The Greatest Royal Pictures of All Time / Metro Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.52
Review Charles, Prince of Wales: A Birthday Souvenir Album (Royal Collection) / Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd:
Authors
- Phil Dampier
- Ashley Walton
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.59
Review What's in the Queen's Handbag: And Other Royal Secrets / Book Guild Ltd:
Edition: 1st American Trade Pbk. Ed
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 941.0840922
RRP: £14.00
Price: £4.24
Review The Children of Henry VIII / Ballantine Books Inc.:
Publication date: 2007-01-10
Dewey code: 942.046092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.45
Review Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III (England's Forgotten Queens): Queen to Richard III (England's Forgotten Queens) / The History Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-05-29
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.74
Review Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier / Phoenix:
Authors
- Phil Dampier
- Ashley Walton
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.85
Review Duke of Hazard: The Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip / Book Guild Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-08-28
Dewey code: 941.073092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.35
Review Charlotte & Leopold / Old Street:
Publication date: 1994-11-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.39
Review Diana: Her New Life (Diana Princess of Wales) / Michael O'Mara Books:
Publication date: 2007-08-09
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.96
Review Zara Phillips: The Biography: A Revealing Portrait of a Royal World Champion / Virgin Books:
Publication date: 2008-02-15
Dewey code: 942.052092
RRP: £20.00
Price: £11.20
Review Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-11-20
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.61
Review Queen Victoria's Children / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-05-05
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.42
Review Henry VIII: King and Court / Pimlico:Henry VIII (1491-1547) casts a long shadow over English royalty and biography alike. In Henry VIII: King and Court, Alison Weir takes on this forbidding reputation to produce an admirably detailed, if somewhat cumbersome, biography of a king who married six times and presided over England's cataclysmic split with Roman Catholicism. Weir's main task is to overturn the "caricature" of Henry "as a man who thought of nothing but chasing the ladies, and who threw chicken bones over his shoulder". This seems a rather obvious characterisation to challenge, but Weir proceeds to amass an extraordinary wealth of detail about Henry's cultivated court, from its learning, architecture and political machinations, to how many people handled Henry's bedsheets and the food that his horses ate. The early sections get bogged down in too much detail, and detract from the political drama of Henry's growing estrangement from his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, and his fateful marriage to Anne Boleyn in 1532. The second section is much more convincing in tracing how "the young, idealist humanist with liberal ideas about kingship was giving way to a selfish, dogmatic tyrant", as Henry dispenses with Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, Anne and then Cromwell, and the court increasingly sinks into factionalism and intrigue. Weir's biography is a lively recreation of the everyday life of Henry, his court and what he called his "ill-conditioned wives", but it neglects the wider European dimensions of Henry's reign, and sweeps over many crucial aspects of the split with Rome. Detailed and scholarly, Henry VIII: King and Court provides a strangely colourless portrait of the most colourful of English monarchs. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2006-04-28
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.94
Review The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Kings and Queens of Britain: A Magnificent and Authoritative History of the Royalty of Britain - The Rulers, Their ... Families and the Pretenders to the Throne / Lorenz Books:
Publication date: 2007-06-04
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.34
Review The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I / Andre Deutsch Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-07-21
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £6.99
Review Queen Victoria's Youngest Son: The Untold Story of Prince Leopold / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.63
Review Elizabeth / Vintage:The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess; Elizabeth I holds a unique place in the English imagination as one of the nation's most powerful, charismatic and successful monarchs. Elizabeth is usually imagined as the icy, untouchable figure memorably recreated on screen by Bette Davis and Judi Dench, but that vision of Elizabeth ignores the turbulent years of her early life, from her birth as the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, until her accession to the throne in 1558 following the death of her sister Mary. It is these early years which are the subject of David Starkey's fascinating Elizabeth I, written to accompany his television series about the life of Elizabeth. Starkey argues that in her first 25 years Elizabeth "had experienced every vicissitude of fortune and ever extreme of condition. She had been Princess and inheritrix of England, and bastard and disinherited; the nominated successor to the throne and an accused traitor on the verge of execution; showered with lands and houses and a prisoner in the Tower". He draws on his skills as a respected Tudor historian to produce a deft account of the religious, political and dynastic maelstrom of mid-16th century England that reads "like a historical thriller". The book carefully picks its way through the finer points of contemporary religious conflict and the peculiarities of Tudor court ceremony, whilst also exploring the formation of Elizabeth's character in relation to a murdered mother, a charismatic father, a tortured sister, and a predatory guardian. Highly readable and written with verve and pace, this is a fascinating account of the young Elizabeth. -Jerry Brotton.
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