This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties: Britains Most Powerful Families
by By Lee, Christopher
Category: History , Europe , Great Britain

In This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties, Christopher Lee tells the stories of some of the most powerful families to have shaped the history of the British Isles during the last thousand years; families that, through their wealth and ambition, were in?uential at the highest level—and many of which were older and more powerful than the monarchy itself. From the Godwines, the Percys, and the Cecils to the so–called “media barons” of the 21st century, The Dynasties surveys the ?uctuating fortunes of a privileged elite: their loyalties tested and rewarded, honors bestowed and withdrawn, their successes and failures, their adulteries, schemes, bloody battles, murderous plots, and shocking executions—stories that reveal the true powers behind the throne.