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...Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, sought to slow the pace of courtship, but Elizabeth was determined....
...David Starkey, 71, is a historian, writer and broadcaster. His books include the best-selling Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. He was appointed CBE in 2007 for services to history....
...So let us consider what Elizabeth has done. Not much, according to David Starkey, the professional controversialist and historian....
..., visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards and Uriel Orlow, who makes modular installations exploring traumatic historical events....
...Starkey sticks rigorously to chronology, avoiding lengthy flashbacks and flash-forwards, preferring a slicker pace and a more theatrical style....
...Dr David Starkey, whose views on rioters have caused a furore this week, used the quote in his book The Young Elizabeth but got one of the words wrong....
...But with the work of David Starkey, for example, focusing once more on grand narratives and giant individuals such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, traditional historical novels are back on trend....
...Mandelson also plumps for a 16th-century anonymous portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, her jewel-encrusted dress as vital as her face is wooden....
...Both he and his daughter Elizabeth I projected “overweening personal power” – a mode followed by Stalin, Mao and Che Guevara....
...Unlike historian David Starkey, who sees Katherine as “a woman with a mission”, angling to be royal consort and influence religious policy, Porter suggests that it was only after she married Henry that she...
...Perhaps, then, the ideal holiday reading would be one history book for every historical novel – David Starkey’s volumes on Henry VIII, alongside Wolf Hall....
...Elizabeth I2. The British Empire3. Black Peoples of America4. Female Suffrage5. The World Wars6....
...Lady Antonia Fraser and David Starkey gave short talks, David in the style of a 16th century ambassador and Antonia replying in the manner of Good Queen Bess herself....
...Paul’s and a jewellery box painted in jewel-like tones by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, his wife....
...Once upon a time, in a country far away across the sea, there lived a lady called Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall. The name of that country was Australia....
...Dr David Starkey, the acerbic historian, has broadened his career: he has curated an exhibition of Tudor portraits, on show until March 18 at Philip Mould’s new London gallery in Mayfair....
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