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Bestselling royal historian David Starkey's captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy's most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense, Henry VIII was Britain's most absolute monarch - but he was not born to rule. In this brilliantly readable history, David Starkey follows the promising young prince - a Renaissance man of exceptional musical and athletic talent - as he is thrust into the limelight after the death of his elder brother. His subsequent quest for fame was as obsessive as that of any modern celebrity, and his yearning for a male heir drove him into dangerous territory. The culmination of a lifetime's research, David Starkey's biography is an unforgettable portrait of the man behind the controversies, the prince turned tyrant who continues to tower over history.
- Sales Rank: #1125822 in Books
- Published on: 2009-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.30" h x 5.00" w x 7.70" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Review
'This book is Starkey's masterpiece.' Sunday Times 'Brilliant. Every page has an intimate fascination. An accessible and entertaining book.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian 'Demonstrates Starkey's scholarship and authorial panache.' Daily Mail 'Writing with a mixture of tabloid verve and original scholarship, peppering every page with pungent wit and yet never skimping on the detail...the best political history of the reign of Henry VIII so far...an outstanding overture.' John Guy, Sunday Times 'If you like Henry VIII, this is what you'll like.' Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year) 'Starkey gives us an unexpectedly fresh-faced Henry VIII in his breezy biography.' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year) 'It is brilliant, beady-eyed history, and every page of it has an intimate fascination...Starkey has eschewed the easy wisdom of hindsight...his strength is that he questions everything...he seeks fresh evidence...his writing is uncluttered and conversational, and he cuts through the back-story...with grace, clarity and wit...accessible and entertaining.' Guardian
About the Author
David Starkey is Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the author of many books including 'Elizabeth', 'Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII' and 'Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors'. He is a winner of the WH Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History, presented by Britain's Historical Association. He is a well-known television and radio personality and was made a CBE in 2007. He lives in London.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Starkey looks at Henry VIII's early reign
By Rebecca Huston
This June 2009 marks one of those dates in history that tend to make historians take notice -- on Midsummer Day, 1509, a young man who was barely eighteen and freshly married, attended his coronation as Henry VIII, King of England. And now to mark the 500th anniversary of that occasion, there has been a wealth of new books, both fiction and nonfiction, exhibitions, and quite a bit television to boot. It seems that the public is still interested in this king of legend, he of the many wives and a rather bloodthirsty record.
Longtime popular historian David Starkey now focuses his attention on King Henry himself after writing about Henry's wives and Henry's children. In the first volume of a proposed series, Starkey looks at a portion of Henry's life that most writers either skip or ignore, preferring to rush ahead to the more titillating aspects of the king's life, namely his divorce from Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. But in Virtuous Prince, Starkey works a bit farther back, looking closely at the history of England around the time of Henry's birth, and the remarkable events that surrounded how the Tudors came to the throne.
The story begins with the Wars of the Roses, the conflict that arose from having a weak king, Henry VI, and two rival families that were seeking to take the throne for themselves. The winners eventually turned out to be the Yorkists, who were led by Edward IV, a charismatic man who had the misfortune to marry a woman who had many relations to take care of and a disposition that wasn't likely to win her many allies. When Edward died, he was supposed to be followed by his son, another Edward, and there was a younger brother, Richard, Duke of York, in case anything happened. But it turned out that it was Edward IV's brother, Richard III who became king. Now a new rival arose in Henry Tudor, a remote descendant of Edward III and Henry IV who decided that the crown of England was worth gambling for. And in 1485, Henry invaded, fought Richard III at Bosworth, and won.
England for a time, was stable. Henry VII, as he was known, married Elizabeth of York, Edward IV's eldest daughter, and set to work unifying a fractured kingdom and begetting heirs. His first son, Arthur, was his parents? pride, and carefully educated and groomed to become the next king. And when a second son, Henry, was born in 1491, and christened with great ceremony, the succession was assured with an heir and a spare.
Gradually, we get to learn about the lifestyle of a young prince, and the people and influences around him. One aspect of David Starkey's writing that I've enjoyed is that he is able to take complex ideas and circumstances and make them understandable to readers who are not university-trained scholars. What makes this so interesting to read is that I discovered that the future Henry VIII was a lively, intelligent boy, delighting when he was the center of attention, a student that was skilled in languages and scholarship, but also devoted to horsemanship, hunting, and especially jousting. When his elder brother married the Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, in 1501, Henry was an old hand at charming the crowds despite being only ten years old, and he relished the attention. But within six months, Catherine of Aragon was a widow, and Henry was his father's heir. Even more devastating was that his mother, Elizabeth of York, was dead within a year after that, trying to bear another child. In the following years, Henry watched his elder sister Margaret be married off to the Scots king, and poor Catherine of Aragon be variously betrothed, married and repudiated by himself by orders of his father. In the meantime, Henry VII never got over the loss of his wife and eldest son, became more miserly, and gradually saw his health decline, finally passing away in early 1509.
Starkey covers the early few years of Henry's reign, when he could indulge in patronage, his love of sportsmanship, and his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The story, so far, ends abruptly with the death of Henry's first son, a little prince that only survived for less than two months.
What I took away from this one was the image of Henry as a Renaissance prince, brilliant and shining, looking at the future with the promise of every desire being fulfilled. And given the world that he grew up in, there is nothing to show that events would ever turn against him.
While Starkey's style of writing does get annoying at times -- he delights in the occasional snarky saying or joke, and other times he gets very pompous and pedantic in his writing -- this is still an excellent book. So many authors give the barest outlines of Henry VIII's early years, if they mention it at all, and it was very eye-opening to see how much of the younger man survived as Henry aged and went through the turmoil of trying to leave a legitimate, living son behind him to be king.
Along with the narrative, there are three inserts of colour reproductions of paintings, engravings and objects associated with his reign. There is a genealogical chart showing the lineage of the Tudor, Yorkist and Lancastrian dynasties, as well as an extensive bibliography, notes and index to help those who are interested in further research. Finally, there is an interview with David Starkey by director David Sington to coincide with the television programme Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant -- this interview is unique with this particular edition of the book.
For those who have not yet explored the glittering world of England's Tudor kings, this would make an interesting start, but I recommend that they start with Starkey's biography about Henry's queens, titled Six Wives, which gives a slightly better overview or one of Alison Weir's many biographies about the Tudors.
Overall, this gets a hefty four and half stars, rounded up to five. It's a readable, workable biography, and helped me to fill in a lot of gaps that I did not know about the youth of Henry VIII. And, happily, there is a forthcoming volume -- Henry: Model of a Tyrant -- that will continue on Starkey's story about one of England's most recognizable kings.
Heartily Recommended.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent view of Henry pre-bloat.
By J. Dominy
I know Dr. Starkey is controversial among Tudorphiles - a love him or hate him sort of thing. I personally love him. As with all his previous Tudor period histories, this appears very well-researched and his conclusions feasible, even probable. Dr. Starkey gives extensive background for his assessment of the Tudor king's character and actions and does not seem to jump to unfathomable conclusions like some other authors (DO sit down, Ms.Weir!) The young Henry seems in such stark contrast to the older Henry, they seem almost to be two people. Dr Starkey does much in this book to reconcile the two and provide interesting theories for the chasm. As always, his writing is very clear and interesting, not your usual dry professorial read at all.( I do think he has a slight crush on Anne Boleyn. I swear reading his descriptions of her, you can almost hear Barry White singing in the background.) Oddly enough, I came away from this book feeling that although Dr. Starkey feels he has made an accurate assessment of the great - and I mean that - Tudor king, he did not really understand him. That Henry's contradictory personality is deliberate on the part of the king and purposely designed so that no man might know his true mind - even 500 years later.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Starkey - starry-eyed!
By Anonymous
Despite having taken a republican line some years ago in a TV studio debate on British royalty, Starkey seems magnetized by monarchy. He has developed a stellar career writing on the subject, generating several books and television series. He handles source material with relish and in DVDs judiciously uses prestige heritage locations.
This is a very good and readable account of the great monster's life, marking 500 years since his accession in 1509. Starkey is particularly strong on the early years. He has recently criticised the focus on Henry VIII's wives, notwithstanding his own Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, and this book aims to right the balance.
Starkey has also written another study of Henry, The Reign of Henry VIII: Personalities and Politics - and has recently said that despite his fascination for Henry, he feels he will never exhaust him.
Whether Starkey finds royalty reprehensible or magnetizing, this is a great read. (It's already out in DVD in the UK under the title Henry: Mind of a Tyrant ... )
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