The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 941 EAN: 9780099445104 ISBN: 0099445107 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2002-10-03 Publisher: Vintage Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Reviews: Henry VIII was almost never alone. He was surrounded, twenty four hours a day, by the small group of intimates and personal attendants who made up the staff of his Privy Chamber. They organised his daily life, kept him amused and acted as the landline between the king and the formal machinery of government. These men, intermarried, interbred and close knit even in their mutual feuding, were supremely well placed to rig politics and patronage for their own benefit. Their influence was important and sometimes decisive: factions in the Privy Chamber destroyed Anne Boleyn, they frustrated the Catholic reaction of the 1540s, and, by doctoring Henry's will, prepared the way for the full blooded Protestantism of his son's reign. "The Reign of Henry VIII" is not so much a book about Henry VIII. It is about the great game of politics over which he presided.