Book description
With her earlier books, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Children of England and Elizabeth the Queen, Alison Weir has established herself as our most readable and stimulating popular historian of Tudor England. This magnificent new book is her greatest achievement: a detailed biography of Henry VIII, set against the cultural, social and political background of his court – the most magnificent court ever seen in England — and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. Seen from this new perspective, Henry VIII emerges as a fully-rounded and realistic personality, not the two-dimensional caricature of popular misconception.
