Dimensions
194 x 257 x 16mm
Part of A Royal History of England series, edited by Antonia Fraser
The Royal history of England opens with the Norman conquest, William I's bold excursion in 1066 that propelled a new dynasty to the throne of England. The kings who ruled varied from the heroic: William himself, Richard the Lionheart, who left his kingdom to seek the martial and spiritual glories of the crusade and spent a year in prison on his way home, to the cunning and duplicitous: John, who betrayed his father Henry II and his brother Richard I, and drove the nobility to rebellion and the Pope to excommunicate him.
The marriages and deaths varied as widely as the rest of their lives, from the joyful union between Edward I and Eleanor of Castile to the disastrous alliance between Edward II and Isabella of France, neglected by her husband because he preferred Piers Gaveston. Edward II had perhaps the most gory death of English monarchists, as he was murdered by a red-hot poker.
This volume covers three centuries and a multitude of drama, intrigue, loyalty, betrayal, courage, fortitude, cowardice and crime.
