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Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs)

2014-12-04 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-12-04
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Book Synopsis Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) by : Stephen Alford

Download or read book Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) written by Stephen Alford. This book was released on 2014-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine and died wholly unexpectedly at the age of fifteen. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use the child to further their own ends, but who were also playing a long game - assuming that Edward would long outlive them and become as commanding a figure as his father had been. Stephen Alford's wonderful book gives full play to the murky, sinister nature of Edward's reign, but is also a poignant account of a boy learning to rule, learning to enjoy his growing power and to come out of the shadows of the great aristocrats around him. England's last child monarch, Edward would have led his country in a quite different direction to the catastrophic one caused by his death.

Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs)

2014-12-30 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-12-30
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Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) by : Stephen Alford

Download or read book Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) written by Stephen Alford. This book was released on 2014-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine and died wholly unexpectedly at the age of fifteen. All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use the child to further their own ends, but who were also playing a long game - assuming that Edward would long outlive them and become as commanding a figure as his father had been. Stephen Alford's wonderful book gives full play to the murky, sinister nature of Edward's reign, but is also a poignant account of a boy learning to rule, learning to enjoy his growing power and to come out of the shadows of the great aristocrats around him. England's last child monarch, Edward would have led his country in a quite different direction to the catastrophic one caused by his death.

Mary I (Penguin Monarchs)

2016-10-27 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-10-27
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 118/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mary I (Penguin Monarchs) by : John Edwards

Download or read book Mary I (Penguin Monarchs) written by John Edwards. This book was released on 2016-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful of all European monarchs, Mary could have completely changed her country's orbit, making it a province of the Habsburg Empire and obedient again to Rome. These extraordinary possibilities are fully dramatized in John Edward's superb short biography. The real Mary I has almost disappeared under the great mass of Protestant propaganda that buried her reputation during her younger sister, Elizabeth I's reign. But what if she had succeeded?

Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs)

2016-04-28 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-04-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 426/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs) by : Piers Brendon

Download or read book Edward VIII (Penguin Monarchs) written by Piers Brendon. This book was released on 2016-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day. Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon's superb biography traces Edward's tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.

Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)

2015-08-27 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2015-08-27
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Book Synopsis Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) by : Anne Curry

Download or read book Henry V (Penguin Monarchs) written by Anne Curry. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: Agincourt Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political wilderness amid rumours that he planned to depose his father. Despite a complete change of character as king - founding monasteries, persecuting heretics, and enforcing the law to its extremes - little had gone right since. He was insecure in his kingdom, his reputation low. On the eve of his departure for France, he uncovered a plot by some of his closest associates to remove him from power. Agincourt was a battle that Henry should not have won - but he did, and the rest is history. Within five years, he was heir to the throne of France. In this vivid new interpretation, Anne Curry explores how Henry's hyperactive efforts to expunge his past failures, and his experience of crisis - which threatened to ruin everything he had struggled to achieve - defined his kingship, and how his astonishing success at Agincourt transformed his standing in the eyes of his contemporaries, and of all generations to come.

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