by David Starkey
I despise this man. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in his court.
This book was really everything I look for in a non-fiction book about history. It was so engagingly written that it could have been non-fiction, but sources were all cited and deviations from accepted wisdom among Henry VIII scholars were mentioned. The story was presented chronologically, with a f...
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At times this was a biography that was so burdened down with details and extrapolations that I kept getting bogged down. Still -- don't let that stop you! Considering how much myth, mistruth, and outright fabrications there are about the Tudors these days, this is still one of the better biographies...