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Reign Of Henry VIII: The Personalities and Politics
£9.99
STARKEY, DAVID
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ISBN: 9780099445104
Author: STARKEY, DAVID
The Reign of Henry VIII is not a tale of Henry VIII. It is about the great game of politics over which he presided.
Henry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded, twenty-four hours a day, by the small group of intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They:
- Organised his daily life
- Kept him amused
- Acted as the landline between the King and the formal machinery of government
These men—intermarried, interbred, and close-knit even in their mutual feuding—were supremely well-placed to rig politics and patronage for their own benefit. Their influence was important and sometimes decisive:
- Factions in the Privy Chamber destroyed Anne Boleyn
- They frustrated the 'Catholic' reaction of the 1540s
- By doctoring Henry's will, they prepared the way for the full-blooded Protestantism of his son's reign
Bursting with sleaze and scandal, David Starkey's account of the machinations of the court of Henry VIII is worthy of a modern-day political saga.
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