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Edward Iv Penguin Monarchs
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Author : A J Pollard
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Edward Iv Penguin Monarchs written by A J Pollard and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with History categories.
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of civil conflict that culminated in him losing, then regaining the crown, he had finally secured his kingdom. The years that followed witnessed a period of rule that has been described as a golden age: a time of peace and economic and industrial expansion, which saw the establishment of a style of monarchy that the Tudors would later develop. Yet, argues A. J. Pollard, Edward, who was drawn to a life of sexual and epicurean excess, was a man of limited vision, his reign remaining to the very end the narrow rule of a victorious faction in civil war. Ultimately, his failure was dynastic: barely two months after his death in April 1483, the throne was usurped by Edward's youngest brother, Richard III.
Edward Iv Penguin Monarchs
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Author : A J Pollard
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-11-22
Edward Iv Penguin Monarchs written by A J Pollard and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of civil conflict that culminated in him losing, then regaining the crown, he had finally secured his kingdom. The years that followed witnessed a period of rule that has been described as a golden age: a time of peace and economic and industrial expansion, which saw the establishment of a style of monarchy that the Tudors would later develop. Yet, argues A. J. Pollard, Edward, who was drawn to a life of sexual and epicurean excess, was a man of limited vision, his reign remaining to the very end the narrow rule of a victorious faction in civil war. Ultimately, his failure was dynastic: barely two months after his death in April 1483, the throne was usurped by Edward's youngest brother, Richard III.
Richard Iii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Rosemary Horrox
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Richard Iii Penguin Monarchs written by Rosemary Horrox and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers. In this enlightening, even-handed study, Rosemary Horrox builds a complex picture of a king who by any standard failed as a monarch. He was killed after only two years on the throne, without an heir, and brought such a decisive end to the House of York that Henry Tudor was able to seize the throne, despite his extremely tenuous claim. Whether Richard was undone by his own fierce ambitions, or by the legacy of a Yorkist dynasty which was already profoundly dysfunctional, the end result was the same: Richard III destroyed the very dynasty that he had spent his life so passionately defending.
Edward Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Christopher Given-Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-09-29
Edward Ii Penguin Monarchs written by Christopher Given-Wilson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with History categories.
'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.' The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supporters of the crown. Hoping to lay the ghost of his soldierly father, Edward I, he invaded Scotland and suffered catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn. After twenty ruinous years, betrayed and abandoned by most of his nobles and by his wife and her lover, Edward was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle and murdered - the first English king since the Norman Conquest to be deposed.
Henry Vi Penguin Monarchs
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Author : James Ross
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-10-16
Henry Vi Penguin Monarchs written by James Ross and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-16 with History categories.
Succeeding to the throne at the age of only nine months, Henry VI had a turbulent reign: he inherited a war with France and, in time, found himself at war with his own nobles. James Ross surveys this eventful life, including Henry's deposition at the hands of Edward IV and his eventual return to the throne.
Edward Ii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Christopher Given-Wilson
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-10-25
Edward Ii Penguin Monarchs written by Christopher Given-Wilson and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with History categories.
'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness.' The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Unkingly, inept in war, and in thrall to favourites, he preferred digging ditches and rowing boats to the tedium of government. His infatuation with a young Gascon nobleman, Piers Gaveston, alienated even the most natural supporters of the crown. Hoping to lay the ghost of his soldierly father, Edward I, he invaded Scotland and suffered catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn. After twenty ruinous years, betrayed and abandoned by most of his nobles and by his wife and her lover, Edward was imprisoned in Berkeley Castle and murdered - the first English king since the Norman Conquest to be deposed.
George Iv Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Stella Tillyard
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-07-04
George Iv Penguin Monarchs written by Stella Tillyard and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with History categories.
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.
Edward V Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Thomas Penn
language : en
Publisher: Allen Lane
Release Date : 2019-04-23
Edward V Penguin Monarchs written by Thomas Penn and has been published by Allen Lane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-23 with categories.
William Iv Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Roger Knight
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-08-27
William Iv Penguin Monarchs written by Roger Knight and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but he was overpromoted at an early age and saw his years of active service marked by a series of calamities. He was also notorious for his mounting debts and his long relationship with the actress Mrs Jordan, with whom he had ten children. Yet, as Roger Knight, one of Britain's foremost naval historians, shows in this concise and perceptive biography, William's bluff, unpolished sailor's manner made him popular with the people. Inheriting the throne amid strikes, riots and the push for parliamentary reform, he helped see the country through the great constitutional crisis of the era. Despite his many flaws, he was perhaps a better king than sailor, leaving the monarchy in a healthier state than when he found it, and enabling the smooth succession of his niece, Victoria.
Edward Viii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Piers Brendon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Edward Viii Penguin Monarchs written by Piers Brendon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never crowned king. In choosing the woman he loved over his royal birthright, Edward shook the monarchy to its foundations. Given the new title 'Duke of Windsor' and essentially sent into exile, he remained a visible skeleton in the royal cupboard until his death in 1972 and he haunts the house of Windsor to this day. Drawing on unpublished material, notably correspondence with his most loyal (though much tried) supporter Winston Churchill, Piers Brendon's superb biography traces Edward's tumultuous public and private life from bright young prince to troubled sovereign, from wartime colonial governor to sad but glittering expatriate. With pace and panache, it cuts through the myths that still surround this most controversial of modern British monarchs.