Kings and Queens - A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Kings and Queens

The British National Anthem

Ten peculiar royal facts

Putting Royalty on the Map

Introduction

Queen Boudicca

King Arthur

How it all began

List of Saxon kings: 802–1016

CHAPTER ONE: The Saxons

Alfred the Great burns the cakes!

The kingdom divided

List of Viking and Saxon kings: 1016–1066

CHAPTER TWO: The Vikings

Turning back the tide

Peace and disorder

Edward the Confessor

Chaos

The Norman connection

The Battle of Hastings

List of Scottish kings: 843–1058

CHAPTER THREE: Meanwhile, in Scotland...

Tanistry

Celtic, Gaelic, English and Scots

List of Norman kings and queens: 1066–1154

CHAPTER FOUR: The Normans

The Domesday Book

Foul play?

Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress: The Tower of London

The White Ship

The anarchy

List of early Plantagenet kings: 1154–1399

CHAPTER FIVE: The Plantagenets

The English Pope

Murder in the Cathedral

Robin Hood

Days of chivalry and the Crusades

Q: Where did King John sign the Magna Carta?

The first Parliament

The Royal Zoo

The Coronation Chair and the Stone of Scone

The Prince of Wales

Foreign queens

The Order of the Garter

The Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)

The Black Prince

The Black Death

The Peasants’ Revolt

List of Scottish kings and queens: 1057–1371

CHAPTER SIX: Canmore, Wallace & Bruce

Trews and kilts

Margaret, the ‘Maid of Norway’

William Wallace

Robert the Bruce and the spider

List of later Plantagenet kings: 1399–1485

CHAPTER SEVEN: Yorkists & Lancastrians

The Battle of Agincourt

The Princes in the Tower

The Wars of the Roses

Bad press

List of Tudor Kings and Queens: 1485–1603

Q: Which one of Henry VIII’s wives cooked with herbs?

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Tudors

The pretenders

Real tennis

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

His Majesty

Henry VIII’s palaces

The privy

The six wives of Henry VIII

The break with Rome

The four Thomases

Lady Jane Grey

A right royal stink

The Spanish Armada

The Queen’s favourites

William Shakespeare

Royal names around the world

List of Stewart kings and queens of Scotland: 1371–1625

CHAPTER NINE: What’s up in Scotland?

Mary, Queen of Scots: 1542–1567

James VI and the witches

A passion for golf

The Scottish Saltire

List of Stuart kings and queens of England and Scotland: 1603–1649 and 1660–1714

CHAPTER TEN: The Stuarts

Anti-smoking campaigner

The Gunpowder Plot

The Divine Right of Kings

Civil War: Roundheads vs. Cavaliers

Cromwell in Ireland

Executing a dead body

The Plague and the Great Fire

Grisly deaths

The Monmouth Rebellion

The Maundy ceremony

The Battle of the Boyne

The massacre at Glencoe

The Act of Union

The Royal Touch

The Act of Settlement

List of Hanoverian kings and queens 1714 –1901

CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Hanoverians

The Jacobite risings

‘Off with their heads!’

The Union Jack

Losing America

The ‘madness’ of George III

War with Napoleon

Rude and crude

Brighton Pavilion

Caroline of Brunswick

The king’s breakfast

Royal mistresses

Prince Consort

‘We are not amused’

Victoria’s royal palaces

The Great Exhibition

The achievements of the Victorian age

The death of Prince Albert

Royal warrants

The British Empire

Empress of India

The Jubilees

The funeral of Queen Victoria

‘Grandmother of Europe’

List of kings and queens since Victoria 1901–present

CHAPTER TWELVE: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha & The Windsors

A royal potato

‘Good old Teddy’

The lost Prince

The First World War

Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson

Broadcasting to the nation

The Second World War: (1939–1945)

Prince Philip

Coronation

The Commonwealth of Nations

The Queen’s children

Monarchy in the television age

The jubilees

Regal beasts

Buckingham Palace

Other royal residences

What the Queen does

The Crown Jewels

Stealing the Crown Jewels

First, last, youngest, tallest

Willy Willy Harry Steve

Glossary

Kings & Queens Timeline

End matter

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