In this fascinating book, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy and its host of kings, queens and pretenders.
In this fascinating book, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy and its host of kings, queens and pretenders.
He died at Farndon in Cheshire and was buried at Winchester. In a reign of twenty-five years, he had almost doubled the size of his kingdom. Aelfweard was a son of Edward the Elder by his second wife Aelfflaed and succeeded his father ...
Now revised to include King Charles III and the future kings, this is the essential handbook to the life and times of every king and queen of England and Scotland -- from the Anglo-Saxon kings to the House of Windsor. --
Donald mac Donald, subking of Strathclyde 101, 104 Donald MacWilliam (d.1187), claimant to the Scottish throne 122, 123 Doniert, king of Cornwall 21 Douglas, Archibald (c1372–1424), 4thearlof Douglas 267, 268 Douglas, ...
In one compendious volume, The Mammoth Book of Kings & Queens offers the first royal biographical A-Z, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, ...
A richly illustrated history of the lives and reigns of the kings and queens of England - from the house of Wessex to the house of Windsor.
The throne of England has been occupied for more than one thousand years, and each monarch has left a mark on British history. Here are their fascinating stories presented in a beautifully illustrated and informative volume.
This is essential reading for all Anglophiles, so brew a pot of tea and dig into the history!
More than 1,200 years of ruling British monarchs — from Alfred the Great (871-899) to Elizabeth II (1952-). Background scenes evoke dramatic highlights of each era. 30 illustrations.
From the reign of Alfred the Great - the first king of Wessex to call himself ‘king of England' - in the ninth century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the ...