Monarchy: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
'In the hands of another historian, the results might have been dry and overly academic, but Starkey, always an engaging writer, has a gift for bringing ideas as well as individuals to life.' The Sunday Times  'Excellent!the really crucial events in the history of the British Monarchy since the Middle Ages are assessed with authority, wisdom and wit!This is Starkey at his fluent and entertaining best.' Sunday Telegraph  'This book!is vivid, lucid and engaging!his judgements delivered with quasi-Pontifical assurance are often acute!a very enjoyable book.' Daily Telegraph  'David Starkey tours England's monarchical horizon with gusto.' Sunday Times  'Starkey brings the past to vivid life.' Daily Express  'Combines compelling narrative and lucid analysis to guide us with a sure hand through two centuries of domestic turmoil unparalleled in any other period of English history!nowhere is there to be found a better short summary of the Glorious Revolution of 1688!Starkey's book will undoubtedly make him and his publishers a tidy profit.' The Spectator  'I found myself compelled by David Starkey's vivid recreation of the hazardous uncertainty of Elizabeth's early life, her successive exclusions from the centre of power, the studiedly ambiguous answers she offered her interrogators, her inevitable implications in conspiracies and narrow escapes from execution.' Times Literary Supplement  'This work has real drive, and it is often hard to remember how dull history could be at school'.' Daily Telegraph  'Combines a relaxed and unfussy style with a thorough knowledge of the period and a sharp eye for detail. Elizabeth's life makes for a compelling story and Starkey tells it well.' Spectator  'Starkey is as eloquent and lucid as ever' The Times  'Starkey is an energetic and authoritative guide through the Wars of the Roses, the Tudors and Stuarts and the Civil War to the Hanoverians, Victorians and Windsors.' Express