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Henry VIII's Last Victim
- The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Engelsk Paperback
Henry VIII's Last Victim
- The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Engelsk Paperback

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII''s reign.

A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as ''the most foolish proud boy that is in England''. He was the heir of England''s premier nobleman, first cousin to two of Henry VIII''s wives - Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard - and best friend and brother-in-law to the King''s illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy.

Celebrated for his chivalrous deeds both on and off the battlefield, Surrey became, at only twenty-eight, the King''s Lieutenant General in France. But his confident exterior masked insecurity and loneliness. A man of intriguing contradictions, Surrey was both law enforcer and law breaker, political conservative and religious reformer and his life, replete with drunken escapades, battlefield heroics, conspiracy and courtroom drama, sheds new light on the opulence and artifice of a dazzling, but deadly, age.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
432
ISBN-13:
9780712643474
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0712643478
Udg. Dato:
7 feb 2008
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
7 feb 2008
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