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The Kings And Queens Of England

From the reign of Alfred the Great - the first king of Wessex to call himself 'king of England' - in the 9th century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story of England's kings and queens is to a large degree that of England herself. Kings and Queens of England offers readable profiles of 59 English monarchs from Harold II to Henry VIII, and from Ethelred the Unready to Elizabeth II. Each monarch is elegantly profiled and the impact of their rule on wider English history clearly and concisely described and analysed. For every king and queen there is a detailed timeline, and the narrative is further amplified by display"ations, feature
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From the reign of Alfred the Great
- the first king of Wessex to call himself 'king of England'
- in the 9th century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, & from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story of England's kings & queens is to a large degree that of England herself. Kings & Queens of England offers readable profiles of 59 English monarchs from Harold II to Henry VIII, & from Ethelred the Unready to Elizabeth II. Each monarch is elegantly profiled & the impact of their rule on wider English history clearly & concisely described & analysed. For every king & queen there is a detailed timeline, & the narrative is further amplified by display"ations, feature boxes, panels of key biographical facts, &
- last but not least
- by 135 lavish full-colour images. Ian Crofton recounts a 1000-year tale of murder, invasion, usurpation, adultery, divorce, civil war & revolution in a manner that is as entertaining as it is informative. The Kings & Queens of England is the perfect choice for anyone looking for an illustrated account of the English monarchy from the Anglo-Saxon era to the present.

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