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A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a mans world, passionately sexual yet she said a virgin, Elizabeth I was to be famed as Englands most successfu
David Starkey's Monarchy charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century. With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the
'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual
Bestselling royal historian David Starkeys captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchys most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense, Henry VIII was Britains most absolute monarch but he was not born to rul
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived CATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to He