Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles by Adam Pennington (.ePUB)
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Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty by Adam Pennington
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Overview: Reveals how King Henry VIII targeted his royal cousins, the Pole family, fearing their stronger claims to the throne.
The story of King Henry VIII, a man who married six times only to execute two of those wives, is part of Great Britain’s national and international identity. Each year, millions of people walk around the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Hever Castle, plus many other historical sites, taking in and hoping to glean some sense of the man and the myth, and yet there is a period from Henry VIII’s life which remains largely overlooked, a period in which he chose not to execute wives, servants or ministers, but instead turned on another group entirely – his own family.
Like practically all members of the nobility of the time, Henry VIII descended from King Edward III, which ensured a ready-made crop of royal cousins were in abundance at his court, and awkwardly for the king, these cousins often possessed much greater claims to the throne than he did. The house of Tudor was one which should never have been, let alone taken the throne. Upstarts in every sense of the word, their ancestry, whilst (almost) noble, was by no means as grand as many a family in England, and it is against this backdrop that this book was created.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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