Synopses & Reviews
This is the concluding part of Alison Plowden's biography. It presents Elizabeth I at the peak of her form - tough, vigorous and autocratic, her appetite for the pleasures and problems of life seemingly unquenchable.
Synopsis
These brief biographies of all the monarchs of Britain, include spouses, consorts and bastard children. From the saintly Edward the Confessor, who is believed to have refused to consummate his marriage, or William the Conqueror, the bastard son of Robert the Devil and how he tricked King Harold into making a solemn oath; or of Richard the Lionheart, killed by an arrow, and the cruel fate which befell the archer who brought his death: or Henry VIII, given to beheading those who displeased him and of the Queen Victoria's stranger servant, the Munshi to the present day -- Kings Queens Bones And Bastards is a book to read and to dip into.