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Dr David Starkey CBETV Historian and Leadership Expert |
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Elizabeth IOrder from Amazon.co.uk |
Her name evokes a golden age in English history, and dashing explorers sailed the globe carrying her flag. Marlowe and Shakespeare wrote during her reign and 'Gloriana' as she was known, was the model for Spenser's Faerie Queen. Yet Elizabeth Tudor, the wily, beloved Queen Elizabeth I early in life was abused, imprisoned in the Tower of London and barely escaped execution by her sister 'Bloody Mary' Tudor. The facets of young Bess' life and how they formed the ruler she became, are explored in this revelatory new biography by historian David Starkey (who also presents the Channel 4 series of the same name.) His controversial thesis of Elizabeth's sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather Thomas Seymour; the machinations of her followers that plotted to depose Mary Tudor even as she protested her innocence to her sister; and how variations of these unhappy patterns repeated themselves through her reign, make compelling reading. The book also serves as a graceful sequel to Starkey's Henry VIII, and the two works together form an authoritative entry to Tudor canon. (Paula Croxon, Waterstone's Online).
Henry VIII
Order from Amazon.co.ukOn his death, Henry VIII left behind some 15,000 posessions. This text uses these possessions to tell his life story, examining his favourite pastimes - jousting and hunting, his hopes for his marriages - his new state bed, made for Anne of Cleves, and other items bought with his £300,000 a year.