Monarchy - England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors

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David Starkey' s magisterial new book Monarchy charts the rise of the British crown from the insurgency of the War of the Roses, through the glory and dangers of the Tudors, to the insolvency of the Stuarts and chaos of the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the rule of a commoner who was 'king in all but name', the importing of a German dynasty, and the coming-to-terms with modernity under the wise guidance of another German, Victoria' s Prince Consort Albert. An epilogue brings to ...Vis mer