Bøger af Robert Stedall

Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men. Explores the later years of Elizabeth Is reign through the lives of her key favourites, who she surrounded herself with at court and elsewhere in a refined game of courtly love.These were ambitious men, who operated on uneven, even uncomfortable, ground of eroticised political standing and were played off one another with half promises of financial or political preferment.Walter Raleigh, Charles Blount, Robert Devereux, and Sir Francis Vere played crucial roles in the twilight years of the Virgin Queens reign.Notable figures, spies, explorers, great military leaders

This will be the first biography of Maitland written, despite his pivotal role in the history of Mary Queen of Scots.

Fresh account of Robert Dudley, favourite and would-be husband of Elizabeth I. Provides a clear explanation of his relationship with Elizabeth, the not so Virgin Queen and his other loves.

This book seeks to unravel the various historical factors leading to the Irish Troubles of the 20th Century.