description: With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson focuses on each monarchs entire lifefrom the puny, socially awkward Charles I, to the choleric, violent William the Conqueror, to the well-meaning, deeply affectionate Queen Anne, who was so heavy she had to be carried to her coronation. Royal Panoply recaptures the event-filled, often dangerous, always engaging lives of Englands kings and queens, set against the backdrop of a thousand years of Britains past.
title: Royal Panoply: Brief Lives Of The English Monarchy
titlecomplete: Royal Panoply: Brief Lives Of The English Monarchy
genres: 19th Century, Biography, Tudor Period, History, British Literature, 18th Century, European History, Historical, Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 869
publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club