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"Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Kings and Queens" unearths a wealth of fascinating truths about British monarchs from pre-Roman times to the present day. Discover revealing stories about the lives and personalities of each monarch and how they have shaped history. Tales of wickedness, greed, adultery and madness make this guide to Britain's kings and queens utterly compelling. "The Amazing and Extraordinary Facts series" presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects make them the perfect books to dip into.
Malcolm Day is a writer and editor, specialising in books about religions, mythology and English social history. He is the author of Ghosts, published by Rydon Publishing, and was an editor on the Reader's Digest team that produced the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Britain. He has three children and lives near Dartmoor in Devon.
1 Refugee from Ancient Israel? 122 Bladud 133 Tragic Loss Regained 144 Who Made Britain's First Laws? 155 Lud, Lover of London 166 Celtic Charioteers Shock Caesar 177 You've Never Had It So Good 198 A Charmed Life 209 Holy War 2110 Did Constantine the Great have a British Grandfather? 2311 Great Mounted Archer 2412 The Mystery of Sutton Hoo 2513 First Christian English King 2814 Dyke Twice the Length of Hadrian's Wall 3015 First Saxon King of England 3216 The Mystique of Scone 3317 The King who Forgave his Enemies 3418 Youngest Ever Royal Philanderer 3619 Coronation Ceremony is Model for Europe 3720 Dorset's Great Royal Pilgrimage 3821 Was Ethelred Really 'Unready'? 3922 Ironside on the Case 4223 Canute Demonstrates Limits to Earthly Power 4324 Sainty Healer of the King's Evil 4525 Portents of Disaster 4726 Changed Forever 4927 Live by the Arrow and Ye Shall Die by the Arrow 5228 The King Never Smiled Again 5429 Twelve Year Old Weds Holy Roman Emperor 5530 Anarchy under Stephen 5731 Penitent Ruler of Europe's Largest Empire 5832 Ransom for a King 6133 Church Bells Fall Silent 6334 Too Nice For His Own Good 6535 Zealous Reformer Persecutes Minorities 6736 Old Enemy Vanquished in a Day 6937 Pansy Meets Grisly End 7138 Order of the Garter is Toast of the Town 7339 Child King Survives a Nest of Vipers 7440 Murky Rise of House of Lancaster 7641 French Crown Slips from Henry V's Grasp 7842 Architect of Eton Not Interested in Ruling 8043 Yorkist Star Rises 8144 Wicked Uncle or Cornered Rat? 8345 Patron of Expansion 8646 Canny Scot Eyes Opportunity 8747 Visionary Supremo 8948 King with Socialist Agenda 9149 Lady Jane Grey Faints on Hearing News 9350 Phantom Pregnancy Changes All 9551 Two Cousins Who Never Met 9652 Faerie Queen from Broken Home 9853 Eager Scot Opens Can of Worms 10054 So Good a Man, So Bad a King 10255 Time of Gay Abandon Comes to Woeful End 10456 Fleeing into Exile Disguised as a Girl 10657 Unlikely Double Act 10858 Anne Bears More Children Than Any Other English Queen 11059 German Prince Beats Rivals to the Throne 11160 Uneful Conformist 11361 Struggle for Power 11562 The Prince Who Lost His Charm 11763 Surprised to be King 12064 Propping Up The Queen 12165 Pleasure Seeker 12466 Hanover Dropped 12567 Eligible Bachelor Becomes Figure of Mistrust 12768 Fearless in War, Fearful in Life 12969 Fashion Icon to Fading Star 131
