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  • Gimson’s Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066

    Gimson’s Kings and Queens by Gimson, Andrew;

    Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Random House
    • Date of Publication 20 August 2015

    • ISBN 9780224101196
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 222x144x27 mm
    • Weight 379 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations B&W integrated by Martin Rowson
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    Long description:

    NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED

    A book for all 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, this 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.

    'The most entertaining and instructive book on the English monarchy you will ever read' Daily Telegraph

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