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The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Reign of Henry VIIIHenry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded by intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They organised his daily life, kept him amused and acted as the landline between the king and the formal machinery of government. This book is about the great game of politics over which he presided.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 03 October 2002
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: British & Irish History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Genealogy, Heraldry, Names & Honours
- ISBN 13: 9780099445104 ISBN 10: 0099445107
- Sales rank: 68,043
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Full description for The Reign of Henry VIII
Henry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded, twenty four hours a day, by the small group of intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They organised his daily life, kept him amused and acted as the landline between the king and the formal machinery of government. These men, intermarried, interbred and close knit even in their mutual feuding, were supremely well placed to rig politics and patronage for their own benefit. Their influence was important and sometimes decisive: factions in the Privy Chamber destroyed Anne Boleyn, they frustrated the Catholic reaction of the 1540s, and, by doctoring Henry's will, prepared the way for the full blooded Protestantism of his son's reign. "The Reign of Henry VIII" is not so much a book about Henry VIII. It is about the great game of politics over which he presided.
