How Fat was Henry VIII? - Softcover

Lamont-Brown, Raymond

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ISBN 10: 0752453777 ISBN 13: 9780752453774

Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2009

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Filled with quirky details about 'Mad' King George and facts about life behind the Palace walls. Queen Victoria, for example wasn't the stern prude that we all think, and was certainly not a women's-libber. She wrote to her married daughter Victoria, 'Women are for a man's pleasure and amusement.' And did you know that no-one is sure who wrote the National Anthem? The controversial sixth verse with the line, 'and like a torrent rush, rebellious Scots to crush' was added some time after the original anthem was composed by a mystery writer - but still remains official, though rarely sung. Even more annoying for Scots, the book reveals that the song, The Skye Boat Song, about Bonnie Prince Charlie with the famous line, 'speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing' was written by an Englishman! --Ron McManus, The Weekly News, November 2009

It's a Right Royal Rumble. We're all aware that King John signed the Magna Carta and that Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings. But what we really want to know about our monarchs is stuff like which one sired the most bastard children. In 'How Fat Was Henry VIII?' Raymond Lamont-Brown unearths this and other important royal facts. --Reader's Digest, November 2009

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Ever wondered how fat Henry VIII really was? Or what made Mary I 'Bloody'? Over many hundreds of years royalty has had its fair share of accidents, rumours, scandals, misrepresentations and misconceptions. For instance, was George III's 'madness' caused by porphyria, or was it due to arsenic poisoning? Or what really happened between Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown? In today's world, where newspapers clamour to report new revelations about the Royal Family, this informative and quirky book gives the inquisitive reader an in-depth look at the secrets of our past royals. For anyone interested in royal matters, or curious about what went on behind the palace walls, Raymond Lamont-Brown helps answer all those intriguing, confusing, mysterious and entertaining questions we might have about our monarchs.

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