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23) The smallest man
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
My name is Nat Davy. Perhaps you've heard of me? There was a time when people up and down the land knew my name, though they only ever knew half the story. The year of 1625, it was, when a single shilling changed my life. That shilling got me taken off to London, where they hid me in a pie, of all things, so I could be given as a gift to the new queen of England. They called me the queen's dwarf, but I was more than that. I was her friend, when she...
24) Cromwell
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
17th century Britain was a hotbed of revolution, treachery and court intrigue. Oliver Cromwell, the fiery ambitious commoner took on the monarchy and changed the course of Western civilization. He and King Charles I fought for absolute rule.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At Whitehall Palace in 1632, the ladies at the court of Charles I are beginning to look suspiciously alike. Plump cheeks, dilated pupils, and a heightened sense of pleasure are the first signs that they have been drinking a potent new beauty tonic, Viper Wine, distilled and discreetly dispensed by the physician Lancelot Choice. Famed beauty Venetia Stanley's "mid-climacteric" approaches, and she fears her powers are waning. Her devoted husband, Sir...
27) Black Adder II
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The nasty genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface as Lord Edmund swaggers around town with a big head and a small beard in search of grace and favor from the stark raving mad Queen Bess. Accompanied by a rabble of riff-raff, the dastardly Lord Blackadder tarnishes the reputation of England's Golden Age.
28) A royal passion: the turbulent marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A dangerous experiment from the start, the marriage of Charles I of England, a Protestant, and the fifteen-year-old French princess, a Catholic, was arranged for political purposes, and it seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the reserved king and his naïvely vivacious bride fell passionately in love, and for ten years England enjoyed peace and prosperity. But when Charles became involved in war with Puritan Scotland, popular...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell's army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers captured at the castle. Yet still, the king refused to accept he had lost the war. As France and other allies mobilized in support of Charles, a tribunal was hastily...