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November 02, 2024

The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

November 02, 2024/ Steve Donoghue
The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

A new biography of the handsome favorite of two kings

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November 02, 2024/ Steve Donoghue/
The Scapegoat, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, King James I, King Charles I, history, Jacobean history, English history, biography
September 01, 2018

The King’s Assassin by Benjamin Woolley

September 01, 2018/ Steve Donoghue
The King’s Assassin by Benjamin Woolley

Research reveals new details about the conspiracy to kill King James I by the Duke of Buckingham

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September 01, 2018/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir, History
Benjamin Woolley, St. Martin's Press, English history, English Monarchy, conspiracies, assassins, King James I, Duke of Buckingham, MacMillan Publishers, Steve Donoghue
October 10, 2009

Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War ​​​​​​​by Adam Nicolson

October 10, 2009/ Steve Donoghue
Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War  ​​​​​​​by Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson’s new book Quarrel with the King is a searching, thoughtful brief study of the earls of Pembroke (and their often formidable wives and sisters) through two hundred years, but there is another family drama, somewhat less ancient but no less fascinating, unfolding just beneath its surface.

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October 10, 2009/ Steve Donoghue/
Biography/Memoir
Earls of Pembroke, English history, Nigel Nicolson, Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Verlaine, King George V, The Age of Reason, Lord Byron, Edmund Wilson, Arcadia, Sir Philip Sidney, Henry Herbert, William Herbert, Edward IV, William Shakespeare, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, King James I, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, Philip of Spain, Adam Nicolson, Steve Donoghue, Napoleon Bonaparte
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