Review, buy British Royalty: The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I, Charles, Prince of Wales: A Birthday Souvenir Album (Royal Collection), Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen, Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Religion, 1558-1603 (Lancaster Pamphlets), Kings and Queens: The Story of Britain's Monarchs from Pre-Roman Times to Today, Zara Phillips: The Biography: A Revealing Portrait of a Royal World Champion, Secrets of the Royal Family: A Fascinating Insight into Present and Past Royals, Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister, Magic Moments: The Greatest Royal Pictures of All Time, The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty (The Medieval World), Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's Obsession, The Princes in the Tower, Henry VIII: Church, Court and Conflict, Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage, Henry VIII (Very Interesting People), The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power, Royal Blood: King Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes, The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant

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Review Andre Deutsch Ltd / The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I

The Lady Penelope: The Lost Tale of Love and Politics in the Court of Elizabeth I (Andre Deutsch Ltd)

Authors

Sally Varlow

Publication date: 2007-06-04
Dewey code: 942.055092
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Review Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd / Charles, Prince of Wales: A Birthday Souvenir Album (Royal Collection)

Charles, Prince of Wales: A Birthday Souvenir Album (Royal Collection) (Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd)

Creator: Rhian Wong
Publication date: 2008-05-19
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Price: £4.80

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Review Portrait / Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen (Portrait)

Authors

Joanna Denny

Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-04-07
Dewey code: 941
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Review The History Press Ltd / Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II

Kings, Queens, Bones and Bastards: Who's Who in the English Monarchy from Egbert to Elizabeth II (The History Press Ltd)

Authors

David Hilliam

Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-06-17
Dewey code: 941.0099
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Review Chatto & Windus / Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII

Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Chatto & Windus)

Authors

David Starkey

Publication date: 2003-03-27
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David Starkey's massive Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII follows on the huge commercial success of Elizabeth. Like its predecessor, Starkey's latest book mixes its author's scholarly erudition with a mischievous eye for a contemporary comparison or salacious soundbite. Starkey's topic is, as he admits from the outset, "one of the world's great stories"-the lives, and deaths, of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The story has been told before, but as Starkey points out, it has been wrapped in the romantic myth of 19th-century historiography. Starkey's virtue lies in his return to the archives to unearth new evidence for his story of Henry's wives. The result is a weighty blockbuster that will annoy the purists but delight the popular reader. Henry is portrayed as a fairytale prince gradually transformed into a "prematurely aged and bloated monster". Starkey concludes that "like us, he expected marriage to make him happy", but this simple desire had increasingly disastrous consequences. Henry worked his way through a series of wives from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr who, according to Starkey, encompass "the full range of female stereotypes: the Saint, the Schemer, the Doormat, the Dim Fat Girl, the Sexy Teenager, and the Bluestocking". While this tends to flatten out the complexity of many of Henry's wives, there is plenty on the cataclysmic impact of the Reformation, new evidence on Henry's first wife's marriage to his brother, and a reconsideration of Henry's final wife, Catherine Parr, as "the first Queen of the Age of Print", to keep even the most sceptical reader happy. [+]

-Jerry Brotton.

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