By Pauline Gregg
ISBN-10: 1842121995
ISBN-13: 9781842121993
"A tremendous book...so evidently the fruit of dedicated labour...there is every thing to take pleasure in in it."--The manhattan instances. A sympathetic biography of the guy who used to be correct on the middle of all of the struggles within the seventeenth century--and a completely researched background that reads just like the mystery it's. Written in a daring and evocative type, this engrossing quantity weaves a unprecedented tale of a sickly baby who turned a king, and lived surrounded via rumor and intrigue and infamous friendships. The notorious tragedy unfolds with such gleaming insights and poignancy you are going to think as though you have been correct there whilst the awl fell upon this unlucky king.
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Cobham and Raleigh were condemned to death but reprieved to imprisonment in the Tower. To Lady Arabella James was prepared to be gentle; she was welcomed into the family and, although she had little money, she became a well-known figure at Court. She was a strange, fey, feckless creature, her life warped by the heredity that brought her close to the throne, her willpower sapped by the two strong-willed women in whose care she had been brought up her aunt and her redoubtable grandmother, Bess of Hardwicke.
James's love of fruit was notorious he was suffering from a surfeit of grapes when they went to the launching of the Prince Royal. Vegetables may simply not have been thought worth mentioning: they certainly do not figure on the menus of the Duke of York, though they were grown in abundance in market gardens round the capital. 7 But, notwithstanding his physical development, Charles was becoming more the scholar than Henry. About the time that his brother was being created Prince of Wales and Charles was dancing in Tethys Festival, his father was paying over £60 for Charles's books and Charles himself was going through the forms of a public disputation in theology.
Tradition and protocol had to be followed and the harrowing procedure of royal burial could spare no one. Long after the doctors had opened the body and head and reported upon the condition of the organs, Henry's coffin remained in his black-draped bedchamber at St James's Palace. There it was watched by relays of ten servants, day and night, for four weeks while, according to custom, his effigy was made and placed on top of the coffin apparelled as he had been at his inauguration as Prince of Wales, with a crown on his head, his George, the insignia of the Garter, round his neck, and his golden staff in his right hand.
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