I enjoyed this book because it is a biography from a different perspective. "Portrait" probably is a better word to describe Marr's work. He places the Queen in personal and political context, explaining her vision of the monarchy and her place in it. This is not a "tell-all" biography and it is ...
From then until the Renaissance, a span of some six centuries, Europe was a comparative backwater. There, tribal groups who had migrated from Asia, and scattered people once ruled by the Romans, slowly came together, first into feudal kingdoms ruled by families, then into nations with fixed terri...