The Stuarts (A Royal History Of England) - Tapa dura

This history of the Stuarts begins with James VI of Scotland, a cultivated and clever man with a grasp of political reality that unfortunately was not shared with his younger son, Charles I, and ends with Anne, whose 13 children all predeceased her, so ending the Stuart line.

Maurice Ashley was born in 1907 and was educated at St Paul's school and New College, Oxford. He was on the editorial staff of the Manchester Guardian, The Times and Britain Today. He was Editor of The Listener between 1958 and 1967. Maurice Ashley died in 1995. Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS (a 40th anniversary edition was published in May 2009), CROMWELL: OUR CHIEF OF MEN, KING CHARLES II and THE GUNPOWDER PLOT (CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, THE WEAKER VESSEL: WOMEN'S LOT IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), THE WARRIOR QUEENS: BOADICEA'S CHARIOT, THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII, MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE JOURNEY (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and most recently LOVE AND LOUIS XIV: THE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF THE SUN KING. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. Her most recent book is MUST YOU GO?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve 2008. She lives in London.