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Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) : The Last Boy King

Edward VI (Penguin Monarchs) : The Last Boy King

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  • Author: Stephen Alford
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Published: 25 June 2018
  • The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, became king at the age of nine and died wholly unexpectedly at the age of fifteen.
  • All around him loomed powerful men who hoped to use the child to further their own ends, but who were also playing a long game - assuming that Edward would long outlive them and become as commanding a figure as his father had been. Stephen Alford's wonderful book gives full play to the murky, sinister nature of Edward's reign, but is also a poignant account of a boy learning to rule, learning to enjoy his growing power and to come out of the shadows of the great aristocrats around him.
  • England's last child monarch, Edward would have led his country in a quite different direction to the catastrophic one caused by his death.
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