Book description
"Queens & Kings is history with a uniquely personal touch. Warm, insightful, and full of heart, Worsley has distilled a lifetime of personal experience into this crowning achievement of a book. Prepare yourself for a personal tour of the palace rooms with Britain's favorite historian.” —Hallie Rubenhold, bestselling author of…
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I know of author Lucy Worsley from her many PBS TV documentaries, so I hoped her book would echo her narrative style of the programs. It does. She writes in the same manner as her TV shows -- sometimes tongue in cheek, sometimes slightly irreverent, sometimes with humor. I've read many books on British royalty, mainly of the Plantagenet and Tudor periods. This book gives the history of those figures, but with an "unusually personal history", as the book states. Worsley tells the lives of these people via her position as Chief Curator of Britain's Historic Royal Palaces. As such,…
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