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Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII

By Robert , King of England Henry VIII;Hutchinson

Book information

Publisher
St. Martin's Press;Thomas Dunne Books
Year
2012
ISBN
9781250012746, 9781250012616, 1250012740
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
2 MB (2097552 bytes)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Pages
(xii, 356 pages) : color illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1491-1547 -- Childhood and youth;Great Britain-- 1491-1547;Henry -- VIII-- King of England1509-1547;Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- BioBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Royalty;Kings and ruler

Description

Hutchinson delves into the forces that shaped Henry VIII from his birth in 1491 to the birth in 1533 of his daughter Elizabeth. Hutchinson is admirable at pulling out amusing tidbits from the primary sources he obviously plumbed to write this breezy account of how Henry's cloistered youth influenced his public role as monarch. The early Tudors realized their hold upon the English throne would always be precarious, and thus ruthlessly eliminated rival claimants and were obsessed about producing enough male heirs to ensure the succession.

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