The Kings and Queens of England

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With over 100 portraits and biographical entries from the National Portrait Gallery, London, this new edition highlights the most important historical events and dates in every reign, with each royal dynasty explained and illustrated with a family tree.

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Dazzling victories were won, albeit at horrendous human cost, and the illusion was fleetingly conjured up that somehow the python that was England could swallow the Renault 5 that was France. To be portrayed to the country and the world as so important and yet be able to walk into every room without seeming arrogant, despite the presence of hundreds of people starting to bow and scrape, is a unique gift. TheSchoolRun offers parents thousands of printable and interactive worksheets, covering every aspect of the primary curriculum. The modern royals may provide a few scandals and embarrassments for the public to enjoy or condemn or both, but it’s just a muted and low-key coda to the centuries of humiliation, incompetence, criminality and failure exhibited by their far more powerful predecessors.You’ve helped me become more organised with the schedule of things, but without the pressure I was putting myself under before. In the same way, a victory such as Agincourt fatally skewed English expectations of military success with repeatedly bleak consequences. I'm finding your site an absolutely fantastic resource alongside the stuff being sent from my son's school. But this ruthlessness, while showing ambition and vigour, was no barrier to incompetence or vainglorious delusion.

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Four years later, when Harold himself was dead, the new king, his half-brother Harthacnut, took revenge on Alfred’s behalf: he had Harold’s body dug up, beheaded and then chucked in a ditch.

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Poppy is so excited when the annual dress-up parade takes on a royal theme, and can’t wait to help out. This popular history of the kings and queens of England is the only book of its kind to address the colourful story of the English monarchy from the Celtic chieftains to the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. I do wish you were around then, as your content is fantastic and my little boy looks forward to your daily worksheets. I’m not on social media but just wanted to reach out and say I have been recommending you to everyone I know, with kids of course! An accompanying poster, showing the family trees and dynastic descent of all the kings and queens of England, is also available from the National Portrait Gallery direct.Henry II’s infidelities so enraged his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, that she incited their sons into civil war just to wind him up. David Williamson's text paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them.