Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists - Kathleen Spaltro - Paperback

Are you intrigued by Brother Cadfael or Jane Austen’s heroines and want to learn more about Maud the Empress or the Prince Regent? Need a better grasp of the background to Shakespeare’s history plays or career? Let Royals of England fill in the missing links. Royals of England offers lively biographies of royal personages that accompany detailed accounts of geographic sites and websites. Placed in chronological order, each profile can easily be read as a self-contained narrative. With the information provided by authors Kathleen Spaltro and Noeline Bridge, you’ll be able to design a tour around a royal person of interest or search out all the royal persons associated with a certain locale. Fifty family trees, one or more for most chapters, help you identify members of different royal houses. You’ll be able to determine how the Jacobite Pretenders passed their claim to the Kings of Sardinia, or how Lettice Knollys, wife to Leicester and mother to Essex, was related to Elizabeth I. Royals of England provides a useful resource for history enthusiasts, travelers, and genealogists alike.Spaltro, Kathleen is the author of 'Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists - Kathleen Spaltro - Paperback' with ISBN 9780595373123 and ISBN 0595373127.