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67Inspirational Books To Motivate You
Here is my list of inspirational and motivational books that have become near and dear to me over the past twenty-five years. Some are biographical, some are spiritual, but each and every one of them has either lifted me when I am in despair, motivated me when I feel too tired to continue on the path I have set for myself, or helped me to come to a decision or to re-affirm one I am questioning. The individuals who are the subjects or the writers of these works are as varied as the times and plac
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75The Six Wifes of King Henry VIII
Katherine of Aragon (Alcal
89King Henry VIII and his six wives - love, marriage, and children
Every English schoolchild knows the rhyme, "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived", about, in turn, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. This article is about Henry the man - his loves, his wives, his children. Famous for having six wives, Henry is said to be the only English King to have had more wives than mistresses.
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76The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Miniseries, 1970)
The rhyme goes something like this: Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. It is, of course, talking of the fate of Henry VIII's six wives. There is so much more to each of these women than...
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60Revelation by C J Sansom
Revelation – CJ Sansom "The experience of our times shows that the princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises and who have known how to addle the brains of men with their craft."...
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54Ann of Cleves -true survivor
Portrait of Anne by Hans Holbein On September 22,1515 a daughter waas born to the wealthy and powerful Duke of Cleves and his wife the Duchess of Julich Berg. She was named Anne. Her life would take some unexpected twists for a simple girl born in a...
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69Sex with the Queen: A Book Review
This is a review for Eleanor Herman's book Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers and Passionate Politics.
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89The Coolest of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Tudors are cool again. For the past few centuries Henry VIII has been regarded as a bloated, ulcerated wife-killer whilst his unfortunate assortment of spouses have been reduced to a playground ditty - "Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived". Then in 2007 The Tudors, hit our screens and suddenly Henry and his six wives were once more the talk of several nations.
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77The Early years of Elizabeth 1, Queen of England
Princess Elizabeth grew up to be one of the most loved rulers England ever had- yet, if she had not lived a quiet life as a young woman, she would not have survived to become queen
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68Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir -- A Book Review
For some time, I actually avoided reading this book. Familiar with Alison Weir's successful career as a non-fiction history writer, I worried her fiction might lack the imaginative flair of historical fiction writers like Phillipa Gregory. However,...
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