FREE KINGS & QUEENS OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND PDF Plantagenet Somerset Fry | 96 pages | 31 May 2011 | Dorling Kindersley Ltd | 9781405373678 | English | London, United Kingdom Kings and Queens of Britain | Britannica Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Kings & Queens of England and Scotland for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Offers brief profiles of each British monarch, and looks at events, places, objects, and rituals associated with the British throne. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. This book which really acts as a guide gives a summary of the British and Scottish monarchies from the beginning of history to the present. It includes the royal dynasties such as the Plantagenets, the Lancasters, the Yorks, the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Hanoverians, as well as the Windsors. At the start of each section that introduces a new royal house, there is a family tree to illustrate how the crown was passed down in succession to the next person in line for Kings & Queens of England and Scotland throne. Then for each Ki This book which really acts as a guide gives a summary of the British and Scottish monarchies from the beginning of history to the present. I absolutely loved this book! Since this book contains an overview of them I feel like I now have the proper foundation to build on which will allow me to search for other books on some of the individuals that I read about that sparked my interest the most. I just love a book that gets me excited about history! A really good reference book dating all the way back and the early Saxon Kings. First sentence: The Romans ended direct rule of England in the fifth century, and by the early seventh century the country had split into seven warring kingdoms. We've got one spread on Early Saxon Kings & Queens of England and Scotland. One spread on Alfred the Great. One page on Saxons and Vikings. One page on Canute. The other chapters cover the kings and queens the enthusiast is probably already familiar with to some degree. Each dynasty is introduced or summarized briefly in a two-page spread before introducing the individual monarch. There will be some readers anxious about what he says about Richard III. After all, a measure of a book--for some--is what they have to say about one king. Richard III was king for barely two years, but once he was dead, historians, clerics, and Kings & Queens of England and Scotland playwrights fell over themselves to blacken his name. Most of the propaganda was designed to serve the Tudor dynasty, which began when Henry VII's army defeated and killed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth in However, in more recent times, historians have questioned whether Richard III really deserves his evil reputation. It is concise. It is readable. It is filled with charts and illustrations and oh-the-bullet-points. It's just packed cover-to-cover with details. Now, that being said, this one is an overview. Whole books--long books--have been written about individual monarchs. This will be just a starting place for the real enthusiast, or perhaps a refresher course. Some might call this a reference book, a guidebook. I see it as an absorbing cover-to-cover read, as compelling perhaps as a bestselling thriller or mystery. A few years ago, I was completely Kings & Queens of England and Scotland with the British children's program, Horrible Histories. This book reminded me of the joys Kings & Queens of England and Scotland thrills of watching the show. Though is primarily focused on the monarchs of England and successor unions with each ruler getting their own individual article from to-present, while the Scottish monarchs were only briefly covered in comparison. Not all the information given in monarch articles is correct, at least to those readers well versed in history, but overall the book is a good reference book. Apr 11, Susan This book is great!!! Sep 22, Nattapan rated it liked it Shelves: english-non-fiction. A good but very short reference guide for British monarchs. A fantastic primer on British royalty. Great book! Okay, okay, I Kings & Queens of England and Scotland. I just love it Kings & Queens of England and Scotland to pieces. In order to become king, the man either had his own nephews put Great book! In order to become king, the man either had his own nephews put to death or The former explanation that someone else actually did the dirty deeds on Richard's regal behalf is of Kings & Queens of England and Scotland more likely, but still, those poor little lads just up and "disappeared" while in THE man's custody -- and nobody involved at the time ever even so much as bothered to offer any sort of plausible public explanation for their eerily abrupt and quite inexplicable sudden absence. That's right, folks, "zero, zip, zilch, nada. The regal Lost Boys, the former heirs to the English throne, were just plain Vanished without a trace; lock, stock, and both princely barrels, both at the very same time! Not if you're you happen to be a card-carrying member of the vaunted, revisionist history "Richard III Society," it ain't. So, go ahead, forget all about those sniveling little brats who apparently eked out their last sad days in that nasty, bloody I mean, now ever so picturesque and touristy Tower! And besides, it was nothing especially personal on Richard's part, was it? I mean, a whole lot of British royalty, and various others who'd fallen from grace, ended up spending their last days in "Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress. But then Not to mention that that just happens to be the last place the boys are known to have been seen alive But forget about all that, will ya? Because the hard, cold, sad Truth of it all is that we may never know for absolute sure what really happened to those two ill-fated young royals. But then, just because, insomebody suddenly stumbles upon Richard III's wicked old bones although he was actually only 32 when he got ever so unceremoniously hacked up on the field at the Battle of Bosworthlong buried in obscurity under the parking lot of Greyfriars Church in Leicester, it doesn't mean the SOB was suddenly a blinkered saint, now does it? Maybe it does. But also, probably Not by ANY stretch of revisionist history imagination, he wasn't. No way, Jose. I mean, although you won't find any of the following in this particular book, if we're going to be brutally honest and really dig just a wee bit deeper, we may some of us, anywayjust might therefore be forced to admit that Edward I, while busily making a name for himself as the infamous "Hammer of the Scots," in a single instance because believe me, he did a whole lot more - and not just in Scotlandmurdered over 8, men, women, AND children at the end of just one single military campaign -- until the desperately pleading Roman Catholic clergymen of pre-Protestant Britain FINALLY got the vicious psychopath to FINALLY cease and desist his vengeful, whole-scale butchery. But then, Scottish king Robert the Bruce himself was, sadly, no the greatest sparer of civilian lives either - English OR Scottish - in his quite literally bloody quest to maintain his oft-contested kingship. And hey, that's just how things were often done way back then, right? All across the world, too, and most definitely not just in little old but now most certainly great Great Britain. In feudal Japan, in fact, if you dared stand against the wrong overlord, you'd have expected to have your head summarily removed. And your wife's head, too. And your children's heads, too. Why, indeed. Oh well. Kings & Queens of England and Scotland just a pretty little picture book filled with cherry picked historical facts, after all. So, best to not get too bent out of shape about the depiction of a single English monarch, eh? Can't have it all, now can we? List of monarchs in the British Isles The monarch of Scotland was the head of state of the Kingdom of Scotland. The distinction between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of the Picts is rather the product of later medieval myth and confusion from a change in nomenclature i. The Kingdom of the Picts just became known as Kingdom of Alba in Scottish Gaelicwhich later became known in Scots and English as Scotland ; the terms are retained in both languages to this day. By the late 11th century at the very latest, Scottish kings were using the term rex Scottorumor King of Scots, to refer to themselves in Latin. Thus Queen Anne became the last monarch of the ancient kingdoms of Scotland and England and the first of Great Britain, although the Kings & Queens of England and Scotland had shared a monarch since see Union of the Crowns. Kings & Queens of England and Scotland had a second coronation in England ten years later. Royal Standard of the King of Scots.