Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 942.052092
RRP: £14.95
Price: £4.88
Review Mistress Anne / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Publication date: 1991-09-19
Dewey code: 941.069092
RRP: £69.00
Price: £69.00
Review A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough / Clarendon Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-23
Dewey code: 920
Price: £12.99
Review Victoria's Daughters / The History Press Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-06-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.98
Review Two Queens in One Isle: The Deadly Relationship of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-30
Dewey code: 942.052092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.63
Review Off with Her Head!: Henry VIII - The Life and Loves of Bluff King Hal (English Heritage) / English Heritage:
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 941.085092
Price: £13.97
Review Diana: The Secret Years / Ballantine Books (T):
Publication date: 1987-10-08
RRP: £10.95
Price: £9.99
Review God Bless Her!: Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother / Ebury Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1996-07-18
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £51.07
Review Ask Sir James: Life of Sir James Reid, Personal Physician to Queen Victoria / Eland Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-10-31
Dewey code: 941.073092
RRP: £60.00
Price: £56.43
Review George III: An Essay in Monarchy / Palgrave Macmillan:
Publication date: 2001-11-16
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.58
Review St Margaret: Queen of Scotland / John Donald Publishers Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-08-05
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £17.99
Price: £11.95
Review The Word of a Prince: A Life of Elizabeth I from Contemporary Documents / The Boydell Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-07-29
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.87
Review The People's King: The True Story of the Abdication / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-01-01
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.94
Review Love and War / Blake Publishing:
Publication date: 2007-01-04
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.75
Review The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter / Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
Publication date: 1997-09-26
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £32.51
Review Diana Remembered (Diana Princess of Wales) / Macmillan:
Publication date: 2000-02
Price: £17.50
Review Elizabeth: Behind Palace Doors / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-04-06
Price: £8.99
Review Sisters to the King / Andre Deutsch Ltd:History is often as interesting for what gets left out as for what gets included. Maria Perry's Sisters to the King is a case in point. Most of us know something about Henry VIII; that he was quite large, that he had six wives-two of whom he had executed; that he split the Church over his divorce from Katharine of Aragon and declared himself "Defender of the Faith". What most of us don't know is that Henry had two sisters, Margaret and Mary. And the reason we don't know is because both women have been written out of the popular histories. And yet, as Perry makes clear, both women were thought to be far more important figures in their lifetimes than any of Henry's six wives. Margaret was married off to James IV of Scotland at the age of 13. He was subsequently killed by Henry's armies and her children were snatched from her. Mary was one of the great beauties of her day and was married off in another political marriage to the ageing King of France. Despite the prevailing male-dominated cultural climate-wives were frequently not even allowed to sit down to eat at the same table as their husbands-Margaret and Mary were not doormats. [+]After the death of their first husbands both women defied convention and stood up to their brother by choosing to marry their second husbands for love. Mary waltzed off with the Duke of Suffolk and Margaret with the Earl of Angus. Even when Angus proved faithless, she stood up for herself by seeking a divorce. And when her third husband, the Earl of Methven turned out to be in the same mould as Angus, she divorced him, too. Perry steers a skilful passage between the personal and the political and creates a vivid sense of time and place. Mary and Margaret become real people negotiating the minefields of Tudor culture and politics and along the way Perry uncovers new insights into such unresolved questions as, for example, whether Katherine of Aragon's first marriage to Arthur, Henry's elder brother, was ever consummated. The main problem with the book is that Perry doesn't seem to have decided whether she was writing an academic text or a popular history. The front jacket rather proclaims it as the latter, but the wealth of detail, the assumed knowledge and the somewhat donnish prose suggest it to be the former. Even so, Sisters to the King is a formidable book, which amply repays the readers investment. But be warned: you have to put a lot of effort in up front. -John Crace.
Publication date: 1992-05
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £11.14
Price: £12.94
Review Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows / St Martins Pr:
Publication date: 1981-09
Dewey code: 941.0850924
RRP: £2.23
Price: £19.77
Review Invitation to a Royal Wedding: Charles and Di / Random House Value Pub:
Publication date: 2000-05-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.54
Review Monarchs, Murders and Mistresses: A Book of Royal Days / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
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