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Gimson's Kings and Queens


Gimson's Kings and Queens

Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066

von: Andrew Gimson

9,99 €

Verlag: Vintage Digital
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 20.08.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781473521667
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 288

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Gimson s Kings and Queens is the most entertaining and instructive book on the English monarchy you will ever read. For lovers of history, the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.Gimson s Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs from 1066 and William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth II and the present-day to tell a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown and family recovery.Written in Andrew Gimson s inimitable style, and illustrated by Martin Rowson, Gimson s Kings and Queens is both a primer and a refresher for anyone who can't quite remember which were the good and bad Edwards or Henrys, or why so-and-so succeeded to the throne rather than his second cousin.

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