Kings and Queens of England
By Unknown Author.
Description
Overview 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 the Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story of England's kings and queens is to a large degree that of England herself. The Kings & Queens of England offers elegant portraits of 59 English monarchs from Harold II to Henry VIII, and from Æthelred the Unready to Elizabeth II. Each sovereign is concise...
ISBN(s)
1435129652, 9781435129658
