Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
de Hutchinson, Robert
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Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII by Robert Hutchinson
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Immortalized as a domineering king, notorious philanderer, and the unlikely benefactor of a new church, Henry VIII became a legend during his own reign. Who, though, was the young royal who would grow up to become England's most infamous ruler? Robert Hutchinson's Young Henry examines Henry Tudor's childhood beginnings and subsequent rise to power in the most intimate retelling of his early life to date.
While Henry's elder brother, Arthur, was scrupulously groomed for the crown by their autocratic father, the ten-year-old "spare heir" enjoyed a more carefree childhood, given prestige and power without the looming pressures of the throne. Everything changed for the young prince, though, when his brother died. Henry was nine weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday when he inherited both his brother's widow and the crown.
As King, Henry preferred magnificence and merriment to his royal responsibilities, sweeping away the musty cobwebs of his father's court with feasting, dancing, and sport. Frustrated, too, by the seeming inability of his wife, Katherine of Aragon, to produce an heir, Henry turned his attention to a prospective second queen whose name would endure as long as his: Anne Boleyn. With the king still lacking a successor by the age of thirty-five, however, the time for youthful frolic had come to an end.
Divorcing his wife and the Catholic Church, executing his lover and his violent will, Henry charged forward on a scandalous path of terrifying self-indulgence from which there was no turning back. Young Henry is an illuminating portrait of this tyrannical, yet groundbreaking, king -- before he transformed his country, and the face of the monarchy, irrevocably.
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Thomas Dunne Books, Hardcover, 2011
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- Título
- Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
- Autor
- Hutchinson, Robert
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
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- ISBN 10
- 1250012619
- ISBN 13
- 9781250012616
- Editorial
- Thomas Dunne Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2012
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- Biography;
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