Kings & Queens : The Concise Guide
Richard Cavendish2007

Kings & Queens: The Concise Guide is a handy-format, fully comprehensive guide to Britain's monarchs from pre-Roman times to the present day.
It reveals the lives ans personnalities of each monarchs - the good, bad, lazy, greedy, downright wicked, sometimes mad and occasionally brilliant - and examines how they have shaped history.
Detailed features and timelines cover the major social, political and commercial events of each monarch's reign.

Packed with images and facts, this is a visual feast of paintings, illustrations ans archive photographs, accmpagnied by a lively and sometimes irreverent commentary that's guaranteed to bring history to life.